Introduction: Realism and Its Antinomies
PART ONE:THE ANTINOMIES OF REALISM
I The Twin Sources of Realism: The Narrative Impulse
II TheTwin Sources of Realism: Affect, or, the Body's Present
III Zola, or, the Codification of Affect
IV Tolstoy, or, Distraction
V Perez Gald6s, or, theWaning of Protagonicity
VI George Eliot and Mauvaise Foi
VII Realism and the Dissolution of Genre
VIII The Swollen Third Person, or, Realism after Realism
IX Coda: Kluge, or, Realism after Affect
PART TWO:THE LOGIC OF THE MATERIAL
I The Experiments of Time: Providence and Realism
II War and Representation
III The Historical Novel Today, or, Is It Still Possible?
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