{"product_id":"the-victorian-novel-dreams-of-the-real-conventions-and-ideology-9780190067816","title":"The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real: Conventions and Ideology","description":"Critical discussions of the Victorian realist novel tend to focus on its vivid representations of everyday life. \u003cem\u003eThe Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real\u003c\/em\u003e proposes that the genre is founded in desire, moving the novels not towards a shared reality but rather toward distinct fantasies: dreams of the real. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRather than simply redefine Victorian realism or propose a new canon for it, \u003cem\u003eThe Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real\u003c\/em\u003e argues that the real is inevitably, for the Victorian realist novel, an object of desire: what the novel seeks to capture and represent. A novel's construction of the real is therefore inseparable from its fantasy of the real--a formulation Audrey Jaffe refers to as \"realist fantasy.\" One way in which this simultaneity manifests itself is that the conventions novels frequently use to represent characters' dreams, daydreams, and fantasies overlap with those each novel uses to create its realist effects. In new readings of Victorian novels (including Eliot's \u003cem\u003eAdam Bede\u003c\/em\u003e, Dickens's \u003cem\u003eOliver Twist, \u003c\/em\u003e Hardy's \u003cem\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Return of the Native, \u003c\/em\u003e Trollope's \u003cem\u003eOrley Farm\u003c\/em\u003e, and Wilkie Collins's \u003cem\u003eArmadale\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eThe Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real \u003c\/em\u003edemonstrates that one of the signal effects of this overlapping is Victorian realism's construction of the real as an object of readerly desire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJaffe shows that realism and fantasy in the Victorian realist novel are not opposed, but rather occupy the same space and are shaped by the same conventions. Revisiting and reconsidering key elements of realist novel theory (including metonymy; the insignificant detail; character interiority; the representation of everyday life and the idea of disillusionment), \u003cem\u003eThe Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real \u003c\/em\u003ealso uncovers and anatomizes representational strategies unique to each text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Audrey Jaffe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190067816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAudrey Jaffe\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43781792628851,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":64.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_d0e082ac-629f-4ccd-adeb-566c51747d53.jpg?v=1757594954","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-victorian-novel-dreams-of-the-real-conventions-and-ideology-9780190067816","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}