Author: LARKIN, MAURICE
Title: Man and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism - Determinism and Literature
Description: London, Macmillan. 1980. (ISBN: 0333141555). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. ix + 201 pages. Second impression (first was 1977). The book surveys the social and intellectual changes in Europe that encouraged a determinist view of Man in 19th century Realism. It examines the growing attention that thinkers of the time paid to environment and heredity as shaping forces: and it indicates how the social consequences of the French and Industrial Revolutions made writers aware that they were living in a rapidly shifting society. The book compares the responses of the better known Realists to these developments - notably Stendhal, Balzac, Büchner, Mrs. Gaskell, Flaubert, George Eliot, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Zola, Ibsen, Fontane and Chekhov. NOT EX LIB B2B. Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Stendhal, Balzac, Büchner, Mrs. Gaskell, Flaubert, George Eliot,Realism, Realistic 19th Century Novel, Determinism Turgenev, Tolstoy, Zola, Ibsen, Fontane 0333141555


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