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Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel

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Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel - Ferguson, Olivia
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What 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 ...

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Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel 2023, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781009274265

Hardcover