Tragic Realism Research Articles

Review: Real and Imagined Worlds: The Novel and Social Science., by Morroe Berger; Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel., by John Orr; The Literature of Change: Studies in the Nineteenth-Century Provincial Novel., by John Lucas; and Man and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism: Determinism and Literature., by Maurice Larkin

Book Review| December 01 1978 Review: Real and Imagined Worlds: The Novel and Social Science., by Morroe Berger; Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel., by John Orr; The Literature of Change: Studies in the Nineteenth-Century Provincial Novel., by John Lucas; and Man and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism: Determinism and Literature., by Maurice Larkin Real and Imagined Worlds: The Novel and Social Science.Morroe BergerTragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel.John OrrThe Literature of Change: Studies in the Nineteenth-Century Provincial Novel.John LucasMan and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism: Determinism and Literature.Maurice Larkin J. M. Holquist J. M. Holquist Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1978) 33 (3): 377–384. https://doi.org/10.2307/2933022 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation J. M. Holquist; Review: Real and Imagined Worlds: The Novel and Social Science., by Morroe Berger; Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel., by John Orr; The Literature of Change: Studies in the Nineteenth-Century Provincial Novel., by John Lucas; and Man and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism: Determinism and Literature., by Maurice Larkin. Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1 December 1978; 33 (3): 377–384. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2933022 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNineteenth-Century Literature Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1978 Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel

Other| September 01 1978 Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel ORR JOHN. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. x + 202 pp. $14.95. GEORGE WOODCOCK GEORGE WOODCOCK Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (3): 319–322. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-39-3-319 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation GEORGE WOODCOCK; Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel. Modern Language Quarterly 1 September 1978; 39 (3): 319–322. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-39-3-319 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsModern Language Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press1978 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Marlowe's Tamburlaine and the Language of Romance

The tone of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Parts I and II, has long troubled critics who have approached the plays as either tragedies or romances. This article argues, on the basis of our responses to Marlowe’s language, that each play attempts to define itself as a romance by asserting the mastery of the imagination over the material world and thus denying the effects of tragic realism. Marlowe creates a language that invites us to indulge in the glorification of worldly achievement in spite of the questionable morality of worldliness. In Part I, Marlowe demonstrates that the world of romance is a world of the imagination and, as such, free from the tragic concerns of a problematic humanity. In Part II, Marlowe moves closer to tragedy by exploring the possibilities of romance within a world where the imagination does not triumph and where the attitude toward the romantic hero is left ambiguous.