Matthew Beaumont 
Adventures in Realism [PDF ebook] 

List of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
Foreword by Rachel Bowlby (University College London).
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Reclaiming Realism: Matthew Beaumont (University
College London).
1. Literary Realism Reconsidered: ‘The world in its length
and breadth’: George Levine (Rutgers University).
2. Realist Synthesis in the Nineteenth Century Novel:
‘That unity which lies in the selection of our keenest
consciousness’: Simon Dentith (University of
Gloucestershire).
3. Space, Mobility, and the Novel: ‘The spirit of place is
a great reality’: Josephine Mc Donagh (Oxford University).
4. Naturalism: ‘Dirt and horror pure and simple’:
Sally Ledger (Birkbeck College, University of.
London).
5. Realism before and after Photography: ‘The fantastical
form of a relation among things’: Nancy Armstrong (Brown
University).
6. The Realist Aesthetic in Painting: ‘Serious and
committed, ironic and brutal, sincere and full of poetry’:
Andrew Hemingway (University College London).
7. Interrupted Dialogues of Realism and Modernism: ‘The
fact of new forms of life, already born and active’: Esther
Leslie (Birkbeck College, University of London).
8. Socialist Realism: ‘To depict reality in its
revolutionary development’: Brandon Taylor (University of
Southampton).
9. Realism, Modernism, and Photography: ‘At last, at last
the mask has been torn away”: John Roberts (University
of Wolverhampton).
10. Cinematic Realism: ‘A recreation of the world in its
own image’: Laura Marcus (University of Sussex).
11. The Current of Critical Irrealism: ‘A moonlit
enchanted night’: Michael Löwy (National Center for
Scientific Research, Paris and École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales, Paris).
12. Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian Real: ‘Strange shapes
of the unwarped primal world’: Slavoj Zizek
(University of Ljubljana and Birkbeck College, University of
London).
13. Feminist Theory and the Return of the Real: ‘What we
really want most out of realism …’: Helen Small
(Pembroke College, Oxford).
14. Realism and Anti-Realism in Contemporary Philosophy:
‘What’s truth got to do with it?’: Christopher
Norris (Cardiff University).
15. A Note on Literary Realism in Conclusion: Fredric Jameson
(Duke University).
Index

Matthew Beaumont is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature in the Department of English at University College, London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and has edited Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward for Oxford World’s Classics.