By Rosa Mucignat

Posing new questions on realism and the artistic strength of narratives, Rosa Mucignat takes a clean examine the connection among illustration and fact. As Mucignat issues out, worlds evoked in fiction all rely to a better or lesser quantity at the international we all know from event, yet they're neither parasites on nor copies of these geographical regions. by no means absolutely aligned with the true international, tales develop out of the mismatch among fact and representation-those parts of the fictitious area that aren't situated on real maps, yet nonetheless shape a completely dependent imagined geography. Mucignat deals new readings of six foundational texts of recent Western tradition: Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed, Stendahl'ss The purple and the Black, Charles Dickens's nice expectancies, and Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental schooling. utilizing those texts as resource fabric and helping facts for a brand new and finished conception of house in fiction, she examines the hyperlinks among the nineteenth-century novel's curiosity in growing mammoth, life-like worlds and modern advancements in technological know-how, paintings, and society. Mucignat's booklet is an evocative research of how novels marshal their technical and stylistic assets to provide imagined geographies so complicated and engrossing that they accentuate or even remodel the reader's event of real-life places.

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