Year: 1995
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Much in the standard literary history of the nineteenth century supports Crary's claim that an analysis of vision gives crucial insight into the way the Victorians constructed experience. Nineteenth-century aesxixThe air of reality (solidity of specification) seems to me to be the supreme virtue of a novel -the merit on which all its other merits . . .helplessly and submissively depend.If it be not there they are all as nothing, and if these be there, they owe their effect to the success with which the author has produced the illusion of life.... It is here in very truth that he competes
Authors: Carol T. Christ, John O. Jordan
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4249934615