The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterly - Softcover

Levine, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226475514 ISBN 13: 9780226475516

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1983

Synopsis

In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a continuing process in which each generation of writers struggled to escape the grip of convention and attempted to create new language to express their particular sense of reality. As these attempts hardened into new conventions, they generated new attempts to break free.

About this title

About the Author

George Levine is the Kenneth Burke Professor of English and director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers University. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of sixteen books, including The Realistic Imagination and Darwin and the Novelists, both published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as Lifebirds.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226475514
• ISBN 13: 9780226475516
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368