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Painting the novel :

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Painting the novel :

[Book]

pictorial discourse in eighteenth-century English fiction /

Jakub Lipski.

New York :

Routledge,

2018.

viii, 163 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm.

British literature in context in the long eighteenth century

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-157) and index.

"Painted in its low-priz'd colours" : the realist and the allegorical in Daniel Defoe's Roxana -- William Hogarth and mid-eighteenth century novelistic projects -- The animated portrait in The Castle of Otranto and the post-Walpolean gothic -- The "complete beauty" and its shadows : picturing the body in Frances Burney's Evelina -- Sentimental iconography from Laurence Sterne to Ann Radcliffe : the case of Guido Reni

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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".

Pictorial discourse in eighteenth-century English fiction

Art and literature-- England-- History-- 18th century.

English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.

Literary form-- History-- 18th century.

Art and literature.

Englisch

English fiction.

Illustration

Kunst

Literary form.

Roman

England.

Großbritannien

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