From "Pride and Prejudice" to "The Color Purple, " the English novel has transcended generations as one of the most enduring literary forms. "The Realist Novel" provides a readable and straightforward guide to analyzing this distinct and popular genre.
Utilizing such well-known works as "Frankenstein, " "Great Expectations, " and "Fathers and Sons, " this book shows how writers utilized this format to reach very different goals. While Jane Austen and Charles Dickens used the realist novel to tell profoundly moral tales in a popular way, Mary Shelley used realism to render a story of myth and horror.
"The Realist Novel" is one of the first books in the "Approaching Literature" series which is designed to offer a range of different but current appoaches to the study of literature.