Designed for scholars of literature as well as readers of realist and modernist fiction, The Persistence of Realism provides new readings of works by James, Joyce, Woolf, Beckett and Ellison, showing how they were influenced by the realist writers that preceded them.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Fables of autonomy in Late James; 2. 'She will drown me with her': sympathy and autonomy in Joyce's Ulysses; 3. 'Innumberable slight changes': historical time and social reproduction in The Years; 4. 'I was always sentimental': Beckett's scenes of sympathy; 5. 'He forgot his history': Ellison's Naturalist Modernism.
