Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-234) and index.
Contents
Edmund Burke: reflections on the revolution in France -- Jane Austen's Emma: realism and delimitation -- Frankenstein and aesthetic decay -- Jane Eyre: vision and aesthetic control -- Aesthetic escapes in four novels by Charles Dickens -- George Eliot's visions: idealism and realism -- Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles: realism as a form of idealism -- Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray: the monstrous portrait and realism's demise -- Symbols, ornaments, and things in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- E. M. Forster and artistic fluidity: romance, idyll and limited metaphors.
