A concise companion to realism

Abstract

List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Foreword by Rachel Bowlby xiv Acknowledgments xxii Introduction: Reclaiming Realism 1 Matthew Beaumont 1 Literary Realism Reconsidered: in its length and breadth 13 George Levine 2 Realist Synthesis in the Nineteenth Century Novel: unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness 23 Simon Dentith 3 Space, Mobility, and the Novel: spirit of place is a great 50 Josephine McDonagh 4 Fictions of the Real: All truth with malice in it 68 Terry Eagleton 5 Naturalism: Dirt and horror pure and simple 86 Sally Ledger 6 Realism before and after Photography: fantastical form of a relation among things 102 Nancy Armstrong 7 The Realist Aesthetic in Painting: Serious and committed, ironic and brutal, sincere and full of poetry 121 Andrew Hemingway 8 Interrupted Dialogues of Realism and Modernism: fact of new forms of life, already born and active 143 Esther Leslie 9 Socialist Realism: To depict reality in its revolutionary development 160 Brandon Taylor 10 Realism, Modernism, and Photography: At last, at last the mask has been torn away 176 John Roberts 11 Cinematic Realism: recreation of the in its own image 195 Laura Marcus 12 The Current of Critical Irrealism: moonlit enchanted night 211 Michael Lowy 13 Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian Real: Strange shapes of the unwrapped primal world 225 Slavoj Zizek 14 Feminist Theory and the Return of the Real: What we really want most out of realism 242 Helen Small 15 Realism and Anti-Realism in Contemporary Philosophy: What's truth got to do with it? 259 Christopher Norris Afterword: A note on literary realism 279 Fredric Jameson Index 290

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