The imprint of the picturesque on nineteenth-century British fiction / Alexander M. Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Alexander M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Picturesque, The, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alexander M. Ross's book is a monograph in the best sense of the word: a short book on a single theme by a devoted expert. In recent years, with the increasing number of interdisciplinary ventures designed to break down the self-imposed barriers between specialist disciplines, there have been several studies of the relation of individual novelists - Eliot, Hardy, James - to the visual arts. But there have been few more general inquiries into the interconnections between fiction and painting. Ross has made good this deficiency in one important area. He has taken the cult of the picturesque,

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Sources and Abbreviations; Preface; 1. A Backward Glance; 2. Theory to Practice; 3. Waverley and the ""Scotch Novels""; 4. Charlotte Bronte; 5. Charles Dickens; 6. George Eliot; 7. Thomas Hardy; 8. The Inheritance; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9786613811196

9781554585786

1554585783

9781282233454

1282233459

9780889206267

0889206260

OCLC:

753479581