Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Histories
- 2 Theories: realism, naturalism, genre
- 3 The founding texts
- 4 The tragic model
- 5 Comic strains
- 6 In the ironic modes: naturalist satire and parody
- 7 The ‘scandal’ of naturalism
- 8 Naturalist description
- 9 The entropic vision
- 10 By way of conclusion: two English examples
- Notes
- Translations of passages in French
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in French
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Histories
- 2 Theories: realism, naturalism, genre
- 3 The founding texts
- 4 The tragic model
- 5 Comic strains
- 6 In the ironic modes: naturalist satire and parody
- 7 The ‘scandal’ of naturalism
- 8 Naturalist description
- 9 The entropic vision
- 10 By way of conclusion: two English examples
- Notes
- Translations of passages in French
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in French
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- Naturalist FictionThe Entropic Vision, pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990