As readers, we develop an impression of characters and their settings in a novel based on the author’s description of their physical characteristics and surroundings. This process, known as physiognomy, can be seen throughout history including in the English Realist novels of the 19th and 20th centuries. Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel offers a study into the physiognomics and aesthetics as presented by some of the best known authors in this genre, like Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. In this highly original approach to the issues of representation, visuality and aesthetics in the nineteenth-century realist novel, and even the question of literary interpretation, Eike Kronshage argues that physiognomics has enabled writers to access their characters’ inner lives without interfering in an authoritative way.
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Eike Kronshage Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 600g ISBN:9781138710252 ISBN 10: 1138710253 Series:Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Pages: 240 Publication Date:17 November 2017 Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
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A / AS level
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
"List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Physiognomics and Realism Chapter 1 ""The Amorous Effects of ‘Brass’"": Jane Austen (Emma) Chapter 2 ""By the Sweat of One’s Brow"": Charlotte Brontë (The Professor & Villette) Chapter 3 ""The Dear Deceit of Beauty"": George Eliot (Adam Bede & Daniel Deronda) Chapter 4 Who Murdered Edwin Drood? Charles Dickens and Physiognomics Chapter 5 Physiognomic Genre Parody: Joseph Conrad (Almayer’s Folly and The Secret Agent) Chapter 6 The Opacity of Modernist Vision: Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse) Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index"
Eike Kronshage is an Assistant Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology.
