Author: IRWIN, Michael.
Title: Picturing: Description and Illusion in the Nineteenth Century Novel.
Description: George Allen & Unwin, 1979. Hardcover. Some sunning to dj, o/wise good condition. Examines how "...most of the great nineteenth-century novelists strove to picture, in words, the people and places that they invented...[exploring the principles and the problems concerned". Provides a detailed analysis of the works of Austen, Eliot, Dickens, Hardy, Gissing etc. Scarce. Out of print. 161pp.

Keywords: english literature history historical literary 19th nineteenth century novel