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.

British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--18th century--History.

Art, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : Routledge, 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". The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/painting-novel-jakub-lipski/10.4324/9781351137812, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed January 22, 2024).

ISBN:

9781351137805

1351137808

9781351137812

1351137816

9781351137799

1351137794

OCLC:

1019573098

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351137812