Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781009274265 |
| ISBN10: | 10092742611 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 228 pages |
| Size: | 235x159x20 mm |
| Weight: | 540 g |
| Language: | English |
| 710 |
Category:
Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism;
148;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 2 November 2023
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Short description:
A counter-intuitive history of literary caricature, exploring how caricature helped make the realist novel in the Romantic period.
Long description:
What was caricature to novelists in the Romantic period? Why does Jane Austen call Mr Dashwood's wife 'a strong caricature of himself'? Why does Mary Shelley describe the body of Frankenstein's creature as 'in proportion', but then 'distorted in its proportions' - and does caricature have anything to do with it? This book answers those questions, shifting our understanding of 'caricature' as a literary-critical term in the decades when 'the English novel' was first defined and canonised as a distinct literary entity. Novels incorporated caricature talk and anti-caricature rhetoric to tell readers what different realisms purported to show them. Recovering the period's concept of caricature, Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel sheds light on formal realism's self-reflexivity about the 'caricature' of artifice, exaggeration and imagination. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Caricature Talk: 1. Defining Caricature; 2. Denying Caricature; 3. Caricature Talk and the Spectator; Part II. Novel Caricatures; Caricature Talk and Characterisation Technique: 4. Jane Austen and Anti-Caricature; 5. Walter Scott and Historical Caricatures; 6. Mary Shelley, Flesh-caricature and Horrid Realism.
