{"product_id":"narrating-reality-harry-e-shaw-9780801489556","title":"Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNarrating Reality\u003c\/i\u003e offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that has become a critical orthodoxy in recent decades. Drawing on such thinkers as Erich Auerbach, J?gen Habermas, and J. L. Austin, Shaw contends that realist novels claim not to replicate the world in their pages or to offer transparent access to it, but to involve readers in a process of narrative understanding adequate to grasping the complexities of life in history. Seen in this light, the works of such novelists as Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and George Eliot, as they depict their own and other cultures and strive to imagine regions of freedom in the dense and constricting web of history, gain a new interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harry E. Shaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801489555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801489556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.12w x 0.61d","brand":"Harry E. Shaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44717168951551,"sku":"9780801489556","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3738786e-6ed0-4f4f-8dc8-61b56a414341.jpg?v=1705687255","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/narrating-reality-harry-e-shaw-9780801489556","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}