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Balzac, James, and the Realistic Novel
By (Author) William W. Stowe
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
813.4
Paperback
224
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
312g
This book has a double purpose: to compare the literary projects, theories, and careers of Balzac and Henry James, and to develop a theory of realism that can account for their unabashed mimetic intentions and for their novels' sophisticated textuality. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand tec