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Article: Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
By Alison Byerly. (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature
and Culture, 12) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University
Press. 1998. x + 231 pp. [pound]34;$59.95.
This is a splendid book. It is about the relationship between realism and artifice in the Victorian novel and about the way in which the novel, though it avoided the romantic and the fantastic elements of narrative, so often incorporated references, allusions, and even the physical presence of art objects into its structure.
The range of Alison Byerly's investigation covers the work of Charlotte ...