This text explores the scope and variety of the great novels of the 19th century. The essays in this collection trace the experimentation of 19th-century writer

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 tha

The study of narrative—the object of the rapidly growing discipline of narratology—has been traditionally concerned with the fictional narratives of literat

Rae Greiner proposes that sympathy is integral to the form of the classic nineteenth-century realist novel. Following the philosophy of Adam Smith, Greiner argu

This book confronts a significant paradox in the development of literary realism: the very novels that present themselves as purveyors and celebrants of direct,