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This book draws on the assumption of certain essential continuities between Romanticism and realism, both in the way realist authors imagine their relation to reality and in the way they stage their own authorial images, examining the role of the sympathetic imagination.

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Introduction: An Author for Realism Part I: Sympathetic Imagination 1. Sympathy and Sympathetic Imagination in Realist Fiction 2. Irony and Sympathetic Imagination 3. The Authorial Economy of Sympathy Part II: Authorial Doubles in Realist Fiction 4. Balzac and the Author as Capitalist 5. Baudelaire, the Flâneur, and the Author as Prostitute 6. Daniel Deronda: The Commodity and its Soul 7. The Decline of the Authorial Double 8. Concluding Reflections

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      Publisher: Maney Publishing
      Publication Date: 31/05/2013
      ISBN13: 9781907975707, 978-1907975707
      ISBN10: 1907975705
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book draws on the assumption of certain essential continuities between Romanticism and realism, both in the way realist authors imagine their relation to reality and in the way they stage their own authorial images, examining the role of the sympathetic imagination.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: An Author for Realism Part I: Sympathetic Imagination 1. Sympathy and Sympathetic Imagination in Realist Fiction 2. Irony and Sympathetic Imagination 3. The Authorial Economy of Sympathy Part II: Authorial Doubles in Realist Fiction 4. Balzac and the Author as Capitalist 5. Baudelaire, the Flâneur, and the Author as Prostitute 6. Daniel Deronda: The Commodity and its Soul 7. The Decline of the Authorial Double 8. Concluding Reflections

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