Shaw, Harry E. Narrating Realism: Austen, Scott, Eliot.(Book Review)

Studies in the Novel | December 22, 2003| | Copyright

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. 280 pp. $35.00.

Harry E. Shaw is most noted for his work on Sir Walter Scott and, more specifically, Scott' s Waverley novels. In Narrating Reality, Shaw broadens his scope to investigate the development of early nineteenth-century literary realism, especially as it is found in the work of Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot. His preface outlines a number of his concerns and premises: most notably that in the nineteenth century, "philosophy can no longer give an adequate account [of realism]" (x), and, so, ...

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