Sunday, March 27, 2011

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Major landmarks of the nineteenth century novel


Juan Bravo Castillo. Great

milestones in the history of Euro-American novel.

Vol II.
The Nineteenth Century: The great masters.

Chair. Madrid, 2010.

Since 1996, Juan Bravo Castillo has developed an ambitious work that constitutes a revision of the novelistic canon euromericano and proposes a broad overview of the development of a fundamental gender in shaping contemporary literature.

From Quixote with Cervantes enter your birth certificate and provides the key techniques and themes of the genre, the novel has become the refreshingly literary form more representative of modernity.

So after a first volume that ranged from the history of gender and Cervantes to the late eighteenth century with the advent of Romanticism, has just appeared a second volume devoted to the nineteenth century and is centered under a third of the twentieth century . Great

milestones in the history of Euro-American novel is the generic title of this series of huge-scale public Chair and that in this second volume deals with the study of the great masters of the nineteenth century, a century splendor of the narrative genre.

unitary approach not only Juan Bravo Castillo delves into the great novels of nineteenth-century masters, but constructs a method based on criteria relating to a unit with other authors. Walter Scott to Balzac, and Dostoevsky or Galdós this is a continuous line of influence that establishes the relationship of individual authors and novels beyond the study of gender subdivision countries and languages.

A genus which develops rapidly during the nineteenth century in parallel with urban life, which became the object of attention of the realist and naturalist novel. One of the masters of nineteenth Zola in 1881 highlighted the totalizing capacity of the novel, which had confined the other genres to less central locations and beyond their ability to amuse, to entertain or thrill, had become a documentary method of reflection and analysis of reality. The novel, Zola said, is everything you want, a poem, a treatise on pathology, a treatise on anatomy, a political weapon, a moral test.

The development of reading and publishing industry becoming more efficient, larger rolls, the serial novel, the appearance of exceptional novelists in several countries, the generation of a reading public are increasingly large number of the key to a picture that stands in the three triangle linking and inseparably related to readers, authors and publishers.

More than a thousand pages of this second volume opens with an overview chapter on the nineteenth-century novel in Europe, dedicated to the career of the great novelists of the century: the intimacy of Jane Austen and Walter historical novel Scott, the total novel Balzac and Stendhal's novel happy few, the evolution of Dickens from the sentimental realism to social realism, the emergence of the self romantic Victorian novel in English of the sisters Brontë, Flaubert and salvation for art, the American novel and revitalization Melville of the epic: the birth of American realism in Mark Twain, Dostoevsky and depth psychology, Tolstoy and the return of the epic, the naturalism of Emile Zola, Galdós and the rebirth of the novel in Spain, Clarín and The Regent , the consecration of Stevenson's adventure novel, the discovery of psychological realism with Henry James and the birth of the detective novel are the chapters that runs this monumental work which is preparing the third installment. Domínguez Santos

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