A Concise Companion to Realism

List of Illustrations ix
<p>Notes on Contributors x</p>
<p>Foreword by Rachel Bowlby xiv</p>
<p>Acknowledgments xxii</p>
<p>Introduction: Reclaiming Realism 1<br /> Matthew Beaumont</p>
<p>1 Literary Realism Reconsidered: "The world in its length and breadth" 13<br /> George Levine</p>
<p>2 Realist Synthesis in the Nineteenth Century Novel: "The unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness" 23<br /> Simon Dentith</p>
<p>3 Space, Mobility, and the Novel: "The spirit of place is a great reality" 50<br /> Josephine McDonagh</p>
<p>4 Fictions of the Real: "All truth with malice in it" 68<br /> Terry Eagleton</p>
<p>5 Naturalism: "Dirt and horror pure and simple" 86<br /> Sally Ledger</p>
<p>6 Realism before and after Photography: "The fantastical form of a relation among things" 102<br /> Nancy Armstrong</p>
<p>7 The Realist Aesthetic in Painting: "Serious and committed, ironic and brutal, sincere and full of poetry" 121<br /> Andrew Hemingway</p>
<p>8 Interrupted Dialogues of Realism and Modernism: "The fact of new forms of life, already born and active" 143<br /> Esther Leslie</p>
<p>9 Socialist Realism: "To depict reality in its revolutionary development" 160<br /> Brandon Taylor</p>
<p>10 Realism, Modernism, and Photography: "At last, at last the mask has been torn away" 176<br /> John Roberts</p>
<p>11 Cinematic Realism: "A recreation of the world in its own image" 195<br /> Laura Marcus</p>
<p>12 The Current of Critical Irrealism: "A moonlit enchanted night" 211<br /> Michael Lowy</p>
<p>13 Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian Real: "Strange shapes of the unwrapped primal world" 225<br /> Slavoj Zizek</p>
<p>14 Feminist Theory and the Return of the Real: "What we really want most out of realism " 242<br /> Helen Small</p>
<p>15 Realism and Anti–Realism in Contemporary Philosophy: "What′s truth got to do with it?" 259<br /> Christopher Norris</p>
<p>Afterword: A note on literary realism 279<br /> Fredric Jameson</p>
<p>Index 290</p>