Eike Kronshage

Vision and Character

Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel offers a study into the physiognomics and aesthetics of 19th and 20th Century English Realist Novels as presented by some of the best known authors in this genre, like Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. In this highly original approach to

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780367887360
• ISBN-10: 0367887363
• Artikelnr.: 58482471

Autorenporträt

Eike Kronshage is an Assistant Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction Physiognomics and Realism
Chapter 1 "The Amorous Effects of 'Brass'": Jane Austen (Emma)
Chapter 2 "By the Sweat of One's Brow": Charlotte Brontë (The Professor &
Villette)
Chapter 3 "The Dear Deceit of Beauty": George Eliot (Adam Bede & Daniel
Deronda)
Chapter 4 Who Murdered Edwin Drood? Charles Dickens and Physiognomics
Chapter 5 Physiognomic Genre Parody: Joseph Conrad (Almayer's Folly and
The
Secret Agent)
Chapter 6 The Opacity of Modernist Vision: Virginia Woolf (To the
Lighthouse)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index