Figures of the World
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about "world literature" by examining the complex, contradictory…
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Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about "world literature" by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill follows naturalism's emergence in France and circulation around the world from North and South America to East Asia. His analysis shows that transnational literary studies must operate on multiple scales, combine distant reading with close analysis, and investigate how literary forms develop on the move.The book begins by tracing the history of naturalist fiction from the 1860s into the twentieth century and the reasons it spread around the world. Hill explores the development of three naturalist figures--the degenerate body, the self-liberated woman, and the social milieu--through close readings of fiction from France, Japan,
FIGURES OF THE TRUE
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