Realist Critiques of Visual Culture From Hardy to Barnes /

• Main Author: Barnaby, Edward (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Fiction.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Have industrial-age technologies and visual discourses transformed us into spectators of the real, and can realist fiction make that transformation visible to us? This book brings Situationist Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle and an array of cultural criticism into dialogue with novels by...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Literary Realism as Meta-Spectacle
• 2. "Pugin was wrong, and Wren was right" - Architectural Revival as Spectacle in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
• 3. "The true Italy is to be found by patient observation" - Tourism as Spectacle in E.M. Forster's A Room with a View
• 4. "You've stirred in me my unacted part" - Historical Pageantry as Spectacle in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts
• 5. "Pressed against the screen" - Cinema and Photography as Spectacle in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
• 6. "The law of white gloves" - The Museum as Spectacle in Edward Carey's Observatory Mansions
• 7. Epilogue: "Those old soixante-huitards" - Debord as Spectacle in Julian Barnes' England, England.