Price, LeahMaynes-Aminzade, Elizabeth2013-10-152013-10-152013Maynes-Aminzade, Elizabeth. 2013. Macrorealism: Fiction for a Networked World. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11157http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11169786Victorian novels were, generally speaking, big. But what forms did their bigness take? Why did a "macro" aesthetic prevail in the mid-nineteenth century? And why, after losing influence in the following century, has it returned in recent years? This dissertation identifies three distinct features - one spatial, one temporal, one intellectual - crucial to that aesthetic. Moreover, it explains why that kind of fiction, which I call macrorealism, has come into fashion at two different historical moments.en-USLiteratureHistoryBritish and Irish literaturecomplicitynetworknovelscaletelevisionVictorianThesis or Dissertation