Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel: Two Principles
2. The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel: Particulars
3. Problems in Defining the Realist Novel
4. The Idea of Poetry
5. Realist Drama
6. Modernism
7. Before, During, and After Postmodernism
Interlude
8. Theorists of Realism
9. The Language of Realism
10. Philosophy, Science, and the Ends of Realism
Index

About the Author

Professor Steven Earnshaw is Head of English at Sheffield Hallam University.