TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hill,Christopher L.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Figures of the World : : The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form / 
T2  - Flashpoints
SN  - 9780810142169
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Evanston, Illinois
PB  - Northwestern University Press
KW  - Naturalism in literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Litterature
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - 19e siecle
KW  - Naturalisme dans la litterature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/75915/
ER  -