Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley

Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley

by George Levine (Author)

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Chicago University Press
Published: 14 Jan 2010

ISBN 10: 0226475514
ISBN 13: 9780226475516

Author Bio
George Levine is professor and chairman of the English Department at Rutgers University.