The Edinburgh companion to the eighteenth-century British novel and the arts / edited by Jakub Lipski and M-C. Newbould.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipski, Jakub, editor.

Newbould, Mary-Céline, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Art and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Art and literature.

Performing arts and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Performing arts and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 545 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Companion to the eighteenth-century British novel and the arts

Eighteenth-century British novel and the arts

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

The eighteenth century witnessed an explosion in new literary and creative forms that rapidly expanded, and the relations between which became more complex. This has typically been described as a period that ushered in the novel form: the malleability of the concept of the novel genre and its history opens up intriguing possibilities for its role within wider networks of interartistic relationships in the period. This book is concerned with how the fertile conversations that different artforms enjoyed in the long eighteenth century intersected fruitfully with the emergent shapes of prose fiction.

Contents:

Part I: Styles and Discourses

1. Invisibility and Narration in Haywood (and Behn and Fielding)

2. Orientalism and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

3. Crafting the Past: Antiquarianism, Decorative Handicrafts and the Novel at the Mid-Century

4. Anatomy, Invasion and Imagination: Reading Gender, Medicine and the Body in the Mid-Century Novel

Part II: Visual Cultures

5. Before and After: Imagining Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century British Art and Literature, from Defoe and Hogarth to Sterne and Gainsborough

6. The Art of Architecture and the Form of the Novel

7. 'The statue cannot be formed, unless our inclination concur thereto': Statuary and Sculpture in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

8. Depicting Beautiful Women in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

9. Stories behind Pictures: Reconstructing a Pre-History of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto

10. The Romances of Ann Radcliffe and the 'Total Work of Art'

Part III: Modes and Spaces of Performance

11. Haywood's Whimsical Adventures: The Novel and the Rococo

12. Song in the Novels of Samuel Richardson

13. Vexed Diversions: Gulliver's Travels, the Arts and Popular Entertainment

14. Songs, Stories and Sentimentalism: The British Broadside Ballad as Sentimental Fiction

15. 'Novel Romance makes me puke!': Burneys, Shakespeares and the Sentimental Plot

16. Polite Arts/The Arts of Politeness: Manners, Hypocrisy and the Performance of the Self

17. Musical 'Epiphanies' in the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel

18. Jane Austen's Art of Elocution: Discerning Feeling in Persuasion

Part IV: Networks and Interactions

19. Multimedia Coterie Romance.

20. The Art of Reading and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: The Case of The History of Charlotte Summers, The Fortunate Parish Girl

21. The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Sociable Arts

22. Novels, Paintings and the Half-Trained Eye in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Reading Culture

Part V: Adaptations and Afterlives

23. From Visual to Material Culture: The Afterlives of Frontispieces to Robinson Crusoe

24. Text Transformed into Silkwork: British Needlework Pictures and the Adaptation of Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter

25. Extra-Illustration and the Seduction of a 'Standard' Text: James Comerford's Erotic Books

26. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Art of Graphic Satire, from Character to Constellation

27. Contemporary Art and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

28. Invoking the Implied Viewer in the Eighteenth-Century Novel on Film.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

1-3995-0663-3