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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816328703321

Autore

Ross Alexander M

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-55458-578-3

1-282-23345-9

9786613811196

0-88920-626-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

800

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Picturesque, The, in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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,