Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel: Extreme Measures

by Aaron Rosenberg

At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009271776
• ISBN13: 9781009271776
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"