“Grotesque but not impossible”: Dickens’s Novels and mid-Victorian Realism
Realism was one of the dominant aesthetics of the Victorian period. The actual word “realism” appeared in England in 1855. It was used by George Henry Lewes to measure the fidelity of an artistic representation to nature or to real life. From the 1850s onward, this new artistic convention, consider...
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2011
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| Samenvatting: | Realism was one of the dominant aesthetics of the Victorian period. The actual word “realism” appeared in England in 1855. It was used by George Henry Lewes to measure the fidelity of an artistic representation to nature or to real life. From the 1850s onward, this new artistic convention, considered more in keeping with the spirit of the age than the conventions of romance, increasingly applied to Victorian three-deckers. As Nancy Armstrong has pointed out, during this period “everyone knew... |
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