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- Title
Metafiction as Reality Effect: Trollope's Quixotism and Novel Theory.
- Authors
Romanow, Jacob
- Abstract
Critics agree that Don Quixote helped originate realism, but its influence on nineteenth-century novels has been widely misunderstood. Realist Quixotism, usually assumed to oppose book and world, in fact models a dynamic imbrication of fictionality and reality. Thus, it helps bridge the normative and utopian functions of literary realism. This concept of realism is both exemplified and theorized by Anthony Trollope's novels, which insist on the mutual construction of literary and social convention. Their metaleptic narration, Victorian marriage plots, and use of the everyday illustrate how metafictionality, counterintuitively, can help construct a sense of the realistic.
- Subjects
TROLLOPE, Anthony, 1815-1882; FICTION writing techniques; LITERARY realism; NARRATION; DYNAMIC models; FICTION
- Publication
ELH, 2022, Vol 89, Issue 4, p1077
- ISSN
0013-8304
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/elh.2022.0037