Painting the novel pictorial discourse in eighteenth-century English fiction

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lipski, Jakub, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, New York ; London, [England] : Routledge 2017.
2018.
Edition:1st
Series:British literature in context in the long eighteenth century.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433700006719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The Sister Arts Theory
  • Self-Reflexive W riting
  • Terms and Methods
  • Material and Chapter Contents
  • 1 "Painted in Its Low-priz'd Colours": The Realist and the Allegorical in Daniel Defoe's Roxana
  • 2 William Hogarth and Mid-Eighteenth-Century Novelistic Projects
  • Fielding, Hogarth and Character
  • Smollett and Hogarthian Variety
  • Sterne and "Howgarth's Witty Chissel"
  • 3 The Animated Portrait in The Castle of Otranto and the Post-Walpolean Gothic
  • 4 The "Complete Beauty" and Its Shadows: Picturing the Body in Frances Burney's Evelina
  • 5 Sentimental Iconography from Laurence Sterne to Ann Radcliffe: The Case of Guido Reni
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.