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Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world "as it is." Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brooks provides a lively and perceptive view of the realist project. Centering each chapter on a single novel or group of paintings, Brooks examines the "invention" of realism beginning with Balzac and Dickens, its apogee in the work of such as Flaubert, Eliot, and Zola, and its continuing force in James and modernists such as Woolf. He considers also the painting of Courbet, Manet, Caillebotte, Tissot, and Lucian Freud, and such recent phenomena as "photorealism" and "reality TV."

English fiction --- French fiction --- Art and literature. --- Realism in literature. --- Comparative literature --- Roman anglais --- Roman français --- Art et littérature --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- Littérature comparée --- History and criticism. --- English and French --- French and English --- Histoire et critique --- Anglaise et française --- Française et anglaise --- Littérature réaliste --- Neorealisme (Literatuur) --- Néoréalisme (Littérature) --- Realism (Literary movement) --- Realisme (Letterkundige beweging) --- Realisme (Literaire beweging) --- Realisme in de literatuur --- Realistische literatuur --- Réalisme (Mouvement littéraire) --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- Literaire stromingen: naturalisme; realisme --- English and French. --- French and English. --- 82.015.61 Literaire stromingen: naturalisme; realisme --- 82.091 --- 82-31 --- 82.015.61 --- 82-31 Roman --- Roman --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Realism in literature --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- French literature --- English literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Literature, Comparative --- 19th century --- Literature [Comparative ]