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This Conclusion revisits the topics raised in the Introduction by asking whether nineteenth-century realism has its own ‘primitive tissue’. With reference to Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson, it suggests that while realism often carries its own sense of ‘aura’, it is best approached as split, multiple, layered and permeable; in short, as a tissue.
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Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings: Volume 3, 1935–1938, ed. by Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 2002), p. 103.
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Selected Writings, pp. 104–5.
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Taylor, p. 8.
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Antinomies, p. 21.
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Antinomies, p. 32.
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Antinomies, p. 36, p. 37.
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Antinomies, p. 76.
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Wynter, p. 307.
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Moore, B. (2023). Conclusion: The Primitive Tissue of Realism. In: Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895 . Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26640-9_5
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