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Description
With its new sub-title Romance Literatures of the World, the book series Mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance world and Romance Studies from the perspective of literary studies and cultural theory. It takes account of the fact that the fascinating development of Romance literatures and cultures both in Europe and beyond has set worldwide dynamics in motion which continue the great traditions of the Romance world and open up new horizons for them. Mimesis works from a transareal understanding of Romance Studies which integrates Romance literatures and cultures both within and outside Europe and which transcends the national and disciplinary boundaries which often conceal the interactions between different traditions and developments in Europe and the Americas, in Africa and Asia. In the archipelago of Romance Studies, Mimesis reveals how the representation of reality in the Romance literatures of the world opens the door to a multilingual cosmos of diverse logics.
The Romance of Real Life, a common title in nineteenth-century European and American fiction, identifies the basic dilemma confronting realists throughout the century: reality is not always interesting, and romance is not always believable.
This simple thesis, familiar in individual cases, has never been explored as comprehensively as here. Equally attentive to philology, stylistics, plot layout, and the slow trends that transform genres, Marshall Brown's study offers a unique slant on fictional form as a challenge rather than a rigid container, traced through a rare combination of minute close readings and large-scale synopses.
Following examinations of recent theories of form and of periodization, the book turns to the Romantic theory of the novel in the very disparate discourses in Germany, Britain, and France, then to early and marginal examples of realism, poems in novels, chapter groupings, and parallels between American and European fiction; it concludes with the disruption of realism by the new short story genre and with the ghosts in late-century novels that pave the way toward modernism.
Marshall Brown, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
