Beginning Realism HISTORY / Europe / RenaissanceRealism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as too slippery to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students and scholars of English Literature and Literary Theory alike, plainly setting out what realism is, the issues surrounding it, and its role in other major literary modes such as modernism and postmodernism.
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The substantial introduction has been completely rewritten to take account of the studies and new approaches of the last twenty years
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using newly released archival documents in London and Hong Kong
housing epitomises the divisions and social inequalities found in Britain today
carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies
Through close readings of personal narratives from four corners of the globe
forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement
Follows the history of the Atlantic economy since the sixteenth century and shows how Ireland's repeated attempts to industrialise were transformed by British and American power
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