Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. List of illustrations xiii
4. Editors’ preface and acknowledgments xv
5. Note on translations, cross-references and documentation xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. What is realism?
8. Core essay
9. What is realism? 31
10. Case studies
11. The contest of realism 65
12. How real is realism? 81
13. The emergence of the novel in India and competing modes of realism 89
14. Chapter 2. Routes into realism
15. Core essay
16. Routes into realism 103
17. Case studies
18. Routes into realism 191
19. Routes into American realism 213
20. Realism and translation 231
21. Chapter 3. Time and space
22. Core essay
23. Fleeting moments and unstable spaces 247
24. Case studies
25. Cartographic realism in nineteenth-century literature 321
26. Mobile spaces 337
27. Reclaiming space, mastering time in African postcolonial fiction 357
28. Utopian island realism in J. M. Synge’s travel narrative of The Aran Islands and Tomás O’Crohan’s autobiography The Islander 373
29. In-between spaces in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore 387
30. Haptic realism 403
31. Chapter 4. Rereading nineteenth-century realism
32. Core essay
33. Literary playing fields in motion 417
34. Case studies
35. The French debate about Gustave Courbet’s pictorial realism and the dialogue between literature and art in the mid-nineteenth century 489
36. Russian families, accidental and other 503
37. The benefit of reading marginal forms 515
38. Madame Bovary in Italy 531
39. Eça and Machado 551
40. Zola, realism and naturalism in late nineteenth-century Greece 565
41. The polyphony of late nineteenth-century Baltic realism 577
42. Chapter 5. Post-1900 transformations of realism
43. Core essay
44. Straw man or profligate son? 599
45. Case studies
46. Realism across borders 697
47. Realism in play 715
48. Realism and postcolonial subjectivity in the Black British Bildungsroman 735
49. The rise and fall of socialist realism 751
50. Realism in Anglo-American crime fiction 761
51. Biographical fiction’s challenge to realism 775
52. Notes on contributors 793
53. Index 801