Satire in an age of realism /

"As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic and severe mode of literature better named satire. Realism's task of portraying the human became indistinguishable from satire'...

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Main Author: Matz, Aaron, 1975-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: 1. Augustan satire and Victorian realism; 2. Terminal satire and Jude the Obscure; 3. George Gissing's ambivalent realism; 4. The English critics and the Norwegian satirist; 5. Truth and caricature in The Secret Agent; Epilogue. 
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