Painting the novel : pictorial discourse in eighteenth-century English fiction / Jakub Lipski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipski, Jakub, author.

Series:

British literature in context in the long eighteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

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

Art and literature.

England.

History.

Literary form--History--18th century.

Literary form.

Physical Description:

viii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

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."

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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 "Fiowgarth'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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780367667276

0367667274

9780815352921

0815352921

OCLC:

1178633367

Publisher Number:

99987267062