The Realist Novel

FromPride and PrejudicetoThe Color Purple, the English novel has transcended generations as one of the most enduring literary forms.The Realist Novelprovides a readable and straightforward guide to analyzing this distinct and popular genre. Utilizing such well-known works asFrankenstein,Great Expectations, andFathers and Sons, this book shows how writers utilized this format to reach very different goals. While Jane Austen and Charles Dickens used the realist novel to tell profoundly moral tales in a popular way, Mary Shelley used realism to render a story of myth and horror. The Realist Novelis one of the first books in theApproaching Literatureseries which is designed to offer a range of different but current appoaches to the study of literature.