... relied, an observation central to both Georg Luka´cs’s and Mikhail M. Bakhtin’s accounts of what distinguishes the novel from other genres and their explanations for its preeminence in modernity. As Watt sees it, the novel entrains the ensuing fragmentation by substituting for the unified worldview...

..., the underlying biographical structure through which many novels, as Georg Luka´cs and Walter Benjamin already stressed, organize their distinctive unfolding of narrative time. For both Luka´cs and Benjamin, this biographical infrastructure came into focus through an intensive engagement with a continental...

... like to put some pressure on these conclusions. Though the fate of Hardy’s protagonists may seem symptomatic of what Georg Luka´cs called natu- ralism’s morbid consciousness, this essay will dispute the bleak determinism and political defeatism so often diagnosed in the genre.2 It will locate...

... in world history. Georg Luka´cs defined the historical novel from the per- spective of Enlightenment humanism and the Hegelian philosophy of history. In The Historical Novel, Luka´cs sees Walter Scott’s novels as portrayals of an emergent sense of history derived from the French Revolution. German...

...-century French and English realist literature at the expense of what I call ‘‘other realisms which depart from such models. Twentieth-century literary critics of a gamut of theoretical persuasions (Erich Auerbach, Georg Luka´cs, Rene´ Wellek, Ian Watt, and Roland Barthes, to name a few) inevitably...

.... It is Georg Luka´cs’s definition of the novel; he also saw the novel as the genre that reveals the fragility of PUCKETT CAUCUS-RACING 19 the forms that would seem naturally to hold the world together: ‘‘The fragility of the world may be superficially...

..., the lib- eration of sensory events from scenarios based on that separation: scenarios of the mind imposing its will in the material world. ‘‘I did not suspect that the soul was so large says Saint Anthony (416). This sentence gives a totally new signification to Georg Luka´cs’s statements about...

... thirty years. For, considered as an apparatus, a regime, the novel is liberated from its formal delineation and recomposed as a logic, a structure of disconnection, much like the ‘‘dissonance’’ that Georg Luka´cs ascribed to the novel, born of ‘‘the refusal of the immanence of being to enter...

...’ publication, certain historical exigencies faded while others remained pertinent for longer periods of time. As William Hazlitt once put it––anticipating the conclusions of Georg Luka´cs and Fredric Jameson–– Scott placed fictions like Waverley and Redgauntlet in the immediate past so that the author could...

... of reading, interpretation, and signification in general, much the same problem arguably underwrites the gothic mode and, more broadly, the epis- temological tradition of common sense). Seduction tales offer a narrative solution, Luka- sik suggests, by exploiting the period’s homologous association...