 | Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Realism in literature; Scott Walter Sir 1771–1832 -- Fictional works; Scott Walter Sir 1771–1832 -- Technique; Eliot George 1819–1880 -- Technique; Austen Jane 1775–1817 -- Technique; Rea; Narrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that... Harry E. Shaw is Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at Cornell University. He is author of The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors (also from Cornell) and editor of Critical Essays on Sir Walter Scott: The Waverley Novels . |
