Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Geoffrey Baker

Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Geoffrey Baker

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If realist novels are the literary avatars of secular science and rational progress, then why are so many canonical realist works organized around a fear of that progress? Realism is openly indebted, at the level of form and content, to imperialis...

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