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Realism and consensus in the English novel : time, space and narrative / Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 294 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058510137X
  • 9780585101378
  • 0748674187
  • 9780748674183
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Realism and consensus in the English novel.DDC classification:
  • 823/.009/12 19
LOC classification:
  • PR830.R4 E75 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The premises of realism -- Perspective in narration -- The narrator as nobody -- Time and eternity : the cases of Robinson Crusoe and Pamela -- Jane Austen's critique of distance -- Mutual friendship and the identity of things in Dickens -- George Eliot's invisible communtiy.
Summary: Annotation This acclaimed study explores how the common denominators of modernity, neutral time and neutral space, were constructed from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. Central to this development was the normalizing of a certain grammar of perspective evident across a range of practices from art to politics, from science to philosophy, from mathematics to cartography. In particular, it deals with the construction of historical time in narrative from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular case studies of Defoe, Richardson, Austen, Dickens, George Eliot and Henry James.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-289) and index.

The premises of realism -- Perspective in narration -- The narrator as nobody -- Time and eternity : the cases of Robinson Crusoe and Pamela -- Jane Austen's critique of distance -- Mutual friendship and the identity of things in Dickens -- George Eliot's invisible communtiy.

Print version record.

Annotation This acclaimed study explores how the common denominators of modernity, neutral time and neutral space, were constructed from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. Central to this development was the normalizing of a certain grammar of perspective evident across a range of practices from art to politics, from science to philosophy, from mathematics to cartography. In particular, it deals with the construction of historical time in narrative from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular case studies of Defoe, Richardson, Austen, Dickens, George Eliot and Henry James.

English.

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