Figures of the World : The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form /
Christopher Laing Hill.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Preface -- 1. Literary Travels and Literary Transformation -- Literatures in the World -- Naturalist Circuits -- Contexts -- The Structure of the Transnational Field -- 2. The Degenerate Body -- The Genealogy of the Naturalist Body -- Nerves and Cracks -- The Story of the Leg -- Translating Gervaise -- Jaws and Fists, the Chin and That Hair -- The Civilized Nerve -- The Transformation of Mimesis -- 3. The Unbound Woman -- Cipher Assembled -- The Birth of the Nana Figure -- Enclosing an Enigma -- Individuality without Content Formal Transpositions and Minimal Schemas -- 4. Plains, Boats, and Backwaters -- Narratives of Structure -- The Horizons of Struggle -- Germinal's Sprouts -- The View from the Crosstrees -- Living Unevenness -- Social Figures and Social Difference -- Conclusion: Figures in and of the World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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"Hill's analysis shows that transnational literary studies must operate on multiple scales, combine distant reading with close analysis, and investigate how literary forms develop on the move"--
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Naturalism in literature Literature, Modern Comparative literature LITERARY CRITICISM--General. Litterature--Histoire et critique.--20e siecle Litterature--Histoire et critique.--19e siecle Naturalisme dans la litterature. Comparative literature. Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--19th century Naturalism in literature.