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100 1 _aFerguson, Olivia,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCaricature and realism in the Romantic novel /
_cOlivia Ferguson.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2023.
300 _a1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge Studies in Romanticism ;
_v148
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Oct 2023).
520 _aWhat was caricature to novelists in the Romantic period? Why does Jane Austen call Mr Dashwood's wife 'a strong caricature of himself'? Why does Mary Shelley describe the body of Frankenstein's creature as 'in proportion', but then 'distorted in its proportions' - and does caricature have anything to do with it? This book answers those questions, shifting our understanding of 'caricature' as a literary-critical term in the decades when 'the English novel' was first defined and canonised as a distinct literary entity. Novels incorporated caricature talk and anti-caricature rhetoric to tell readers what different realisms purported to show them. Recovering the period's concept of caricature, Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel sheds light on formal realism's self-reflexivity about the 'caricature' of artifice, exaggeration and imagination. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_x19th century
_yHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aCaricature in literature.
650 0 _aRealism in literature.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781009274265
830 0 _aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;
_v148.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009274227
999 _c10157
_d10157