Man and society in nineteenth-century realism: Determinism and literature Unknown - 1977

London: Macmillan, 1977. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Hard back in good+ condition. Ex-library, with a few stamps and labels internally, page tops are a bit dusty, otherwise clean throughout, binding is very good. In very good dust jacket with small mark on spine where library label was, otherwise clean. This book surveys the social and intellectual changes in Europe that encouraged a determinist view of Man in nineteenth century Realism. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Macmillan, 1980. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. ix + 201 pages. Second impression (first was 1977). The book surveys the social and intellectual changes in Europe that encouraged a determinist view of Man in 19th century Realism. It examines the growing attention that thinkers of the time paid to environment and heredity as shaping forces: and it indicates how the social consequences of the French and Industrial Revolutions made writers aware that they were living in a rapidly shifting society. The book compares the responses of the better known Realists to these developments - notably Stendhal, Balzac, Büchner, Mrs. Gaskell, Flaubert, George Eliot, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Zola, Ibsen, Fontane and Chekhov. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2B. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Macmillan, 1977-12. Hardcover. Good.