Eric Downing is Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina.
... this is a work of engaged and engaging criticism whose
dis-disenchanting programme will move its readers to (re)visit not
just the two target novels but, in principle, any other work marked
'realist.'
*MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW*
By challenging the received historiographical and aesthetic notions
that underpin the study of Realism by expanding our understanding
of mimesis, rather than jettisoning it, Downing's work potently
charges and expands many of the crucial concepts of both the field
and its best-known authors. The Chain of Things gives scholars
working in the field invaluable tools to approach some of the most
difficult and intriguing questions of these difficult and
intriguing texts.
*The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory*
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