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dc.contributor.authorLipski, Jakub
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-02T14:40:18Z
dc.date.available2021-02-02T14:40:18Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifierONIX_20210202_9781351137805_31
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46423
dc.description.abstractPainting 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".
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBritish Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.otherLiterature: history and criticism
dc.titlePainting the Novel
dc.title.alternativePictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781351137812
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages174


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