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Man and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism

Determinism and Literature

  • Textbook
  • © 1977

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Authors:
  1. Maurice Larkin
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Beating the Bounds

    1. Beating the Bounds

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 1-6

  3. Stendhal, Balzac and Determinism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. The Shaping Forces of Society: Stendhal’s Europe

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 9-16

    3. Determinist Thought: Stendhal and the Eighteenth-century Inheritance

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 17-30

    4. Man and Beast: the Balzacian Jungle

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 31-41

    5. Une Société Embourgeoisée? Balzac’s France

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 42-51

  4. Facing Reality: Determinism and the Realist Response

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Pessimism

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 55-65

    3. More Pessimism: Flaubert

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 66-73

    4. The Industrial Revolution

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 74-88

    5. A Modus Vivendi? George Eliot

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 89-97

    6. Russia and the Realist Response: Turgenev

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 98-110

    7. Experience versus the Intellect: Tolstoy

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 111-120

  5. Later Responses: Zola, Ibsen, Fontane, Chekhov

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. La Bête Humaine

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 123-133

    3. The Ubiquitous Doctor

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 134-138

    4. The Dismal Science: Economic Man

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 139-151

    5. Society versus the Individual

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 152-162

    6. Hope and Despair

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 163-174
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