Narrating RealityNarrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that has become a critical orthodoxy in recent decades. Drawing on such thinkers as Erich Auerbach, Jrgen Habermas, and J. L. Austin, Shaw contends that realist novels claim not to replicate the world in their