1st Edition
Picturing Description and Illusion in the Nineteenth Century Novel
By Michael Irwin
Copyright 1979
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1979. Most of the great nineteenth century novelists strove to render in words the people and places that they invented and most readers of fiction picture in their imagination these characters and scenes. This book investigates both types of ‘picturing’, exploring the principles and problems concerned, and sheds light on the workings of fiction — reassessing a number of famous... Read more
Preface; 1 Introduction 2 Fictitious Faces 3 Gesture 4 Clothes and Accoutrements 5 Rooms and Houses 6 Villages and Towns; Notes; Index
Biography
Michael Irwin
