Painting the novel : pictorial discourse in eighteenth-century English fiction / Jakub Lipski
(British literature in context in the long eighteenth century)
Material Type | E-Book |
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Publisher | New York, NY ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Year | 2018 |
Language | English |
Size | 1 online resource (174 pages) |
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Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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Notes | "Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting - a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of their fictions. In this, the novelists took part in the discussion of the sister arts, not only by pointing to the affinities between them but also, more importantly, by recognising their potential to inform one another; in other words, they expressed a conviction that the theory of a new genre can be successfully rendered through meta-pictorial analogies. By tracing the uses of painting in eighteenth-century novelistic discourse, this book sheds new light on the history of the so-called "rise of the novel"."--Provided by publisher Open Access Includes bibliographical references and index Print version record |
Authors | *Lipski, Jakub. |
Subjects | BSH:Electronic books FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc LCSH:English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism All Subject Search LCSH:Art and literature LCSH:Art in literature BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh All Subject Search FREE:Art and literature FREE:Art in literature FREE:English fiction FREE:1700-1799 |
Classification | DC23:823.509 |
ID | ED00003791 |
ISBN | 9781351137799 |