A concise companion to realism / edited by Matthew Beaumont.

Updated ed. of: Adventures in realism. 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Rachel Bowlby -- Introduction : reclaiming realism / Matthew Beaumont -- Literary realism reconsidered : the world in its length and breadth / George Levine -- Realist synthesis in the nineteenth-century novel : that unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness / Simon Dentith -- Space, mobility, and the novel : the spirit of place is a great reality / Josephine McDonagh -- Fictions of the real : all truth with malice in it / Terry Eagleton -- Naturalism : dirt and horror pure and simple / Sally Ledger -- Realism before and after photography : the fantastical form of a relation among things / Nancy Armstrong -- The realist aesthetic in painting : serious and committed, ironic and brutal, sincere and full of poetry / Andrew Hemingway -- Interrupted dialogues of realism and modernism : the fact of new forms of life, already born and active / Esther Leslie -- Socialist realism : to depict reality in its revolutionary development / Brandon Taylor -- Realism, modernism, and photography : at last, at last the mask has been torn away / John Roberts -- Cinematic realism : a recreation of the world in its own image / Laura Marcus -- The current of critical irrealism : a moonlit enchanted night / Michael Löwy -- Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian real : strange shapes of the unwarped primal world / Slavoj Žižek -- Feminist theory and the return of the real : what we really want most out of realism / Helen Small -- Realism and anti-realism in contemporary philosophy : what's truth got to do with it? / Christopher Norris -- Afterword : a note on literary realism / Fredric Jameson.