Adventures in Realism

List of Illustrations.
<p>Notes on Contributors.</p>
<p>Foreword by Rachel Bowlby (University College London).</p>
<p>Acknowledgments.</p>
<p>Introduction: Reclaiming Realism: Matthew Beaumont (University College London).</p>
<p>1. Literary Realism Reconsidered: The world in its length and breadth : George Levine (Rutgers University).</p>
<p>2. Realist Synthesis in the Nineteenth Century Novel: That unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness : Simon Dentith (University of Gloucestershire).</p>
<p>3. Space, Mobility, and the Novel: The spirit of place is a great reality : Josephine McDonagh (Oxford University).</p>
<p>4. Naturalism: Dirt and horror pure and simple : Sally Ledger (Birkbeck College, University of.</p>
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<p>5. Realism before and after Photography: The fantastical form of a relation among things : Nancy Armstrong (Brown University).</p>
<p>6. The Realist Aesthetic in Painting: Serious and committed, ironic and brutal, sincere and full of poetry : Andrew Hemingway (University College London).</p>
<p>7. Interrupted Dialogues of Realism and Modernism: The fact of new forms of life, already born and active : Esther Leslie (Birkbeck College, University of London).</p>
<p>8. Socialist Realism: To depict reality in its revolutionary development : Brandon Taylor (University of Southampton).</p>
<p>9. Realism, Modernism, and Photography: At last, at last the mask has been torn away : John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton).</p>
<p>10. Cinematic Realism: A recreation of the world in its own image : Laura Marcus (University of Sussex).</p>
<p>11. The Current of Critical Irrealism: A moonlit enchanted night : Michael L&ouml;wy (National Center for Scientific Research, Paris and &Eacute;cole des Hautes &Eacute;tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris).</p>
<p>12. Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian Real: Strange shapes of the unwarped primal world : Slavoj i ek (University of Ljubljana and Birkbeck College, University of London).</p>
<p>13. Feminist Theory and the Return of the Real: What we really want most out of realism : Helen Small (Pembroke College, Oxford).</p>
<p>14. Realism and Anti–Realism in Contemporary Philosophy: What s truth got to do with it? : Christopher Norris (Cardiff University).</p>
<p>15. A Note on Literary Realism in Conclusion: Fredric Jameson (Duke University).</p>
<p>Index</p>