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  • © 1977

Man and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism

Determinism and Literature

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Beating the Bounds

    1. Beating the Bounds

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 1-6
  3. Stendhal, Balzac and Determinism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Man and Beast: the Balzacian Jungle

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 31-41
  4. Facing Reality: Determinism and the Realist Response

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
    2. Pessimism

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 55-65
    3. More Pessimism: Flaubert

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 66-73
    4. The Industrial Revolution

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 74-88
    5. A Modus Vivendi? George Eliot

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 89-97
    6. Russia and the Realist Response: Turgenev

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 98-110
    7. Experience versus the Intellect: Tolstoy

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 111-120
  5. Later Responses: Zola, Ibsen, Fontane, Chekhov

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
    2. La Bête Humaine

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 123-133
    3. The Ubiquitous Doctor

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 134-138
    4. The Dismal Science: Economic Man

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 139-151
    5. Society versus the Individual

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 152-162
    6. Hope and Despair

      • Maurice Larkin
      Pages 163-174

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