Abstract
Realism is not particularly realistic: we accept that it contains multiple ontologies and read ‘reference’ as normative and indeed constitutive of the genre, but if we read it literally and skeptically, this hetero-ontology performs all kinds of wonders and introduces the possibilities of new kinds of belief, new social formations and new ways of being in a world that breaks apart and then mends in a new configuration. Taking an obscure Indian Mutiny/boy's adventure novel – G. A. Henty's Rujub, the Juggler (1893) – as a case study, this article asks us to read realism against its grain and wonder about its routine, but rupturing gestures towards reality, history, as well as to the inexplicable, the supernatural and the other-worldly. How many worlds can a novel contain? What if we insist on suturing them together into one?
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