Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795-1869 - Imagined Geographies

Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Mucignat offers fresh readings of novels by Goethe, Jane Austen, Alessandro Manzoni, Stendahl, Charles Dickens and Gustave Flaubert, to examine the links between the nineteenth-century novel's interest in creating life-like worlds and contemporary developments in science, art