1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780578803321

Autore

Corman Brian <1945->

Titolo

Genre and generic change in English comedy, 1660-1710 / / Brian Corman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

1-282-01177-4

9786612011771

1-4426-7523-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Disciplina

822/.05230904

Soggetti

English drama - Restoration, 1660-1700 - History and criticism

English drama - 18th century - History and criticism

English drama (Comedy) - History and criticism

Literary form - History - 18th century

Literary form - History - 17th century

Livres numeriques.

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Englisch

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Preface -- 1 The 'Mixt Way' of Comedy -- 2 Six Representative Comedies, 1670�1675 -- 3 Six Representative Comedies, 1690�1695 -- 4 Six Representative Comedies, 1705�1710 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z

Sommario/riassunto

Corman proposes a new way of looking at genre and generic change and brings a remarkable thoroughness and sensitivity to his study of



individual authors and their work.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910819379803321

Autore

Conway Alison Margaret

Titolo

Private interests : women, portraiture, and the visual culture of the English novel, 1709-1791 / / Alison Conway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-282-01439-0

9786612014390

1-4426-7876-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Disciplina

823/.509357

Soggetti

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Art and literature - England - History - 18th century

Women and literature - England - History - 18th century

Visual perception in literature

Portraits in literature

Women in literature

Livres numeriques.

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Englisch

England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The novel and the portrait in eighteenth-century England -- Envisioning literary interest: Manley's The New Atalantis -- "Ravished sight": picturing Clarissa -- Refiguring virtue: The history of Miss Betsy



Thoughtless and Amelia -- "Paint her to your own mind": Sterne's concupiscible narratives -- Portraits of the woman artist: Kauffman, Wollstonecraft, and Inchbald.

Sommario/riassunto

This ambitious interdisciplinary study undertakes a new definition of the eighteenth-century novel's investment in vision and visual culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the novel and that of the equally contentious genre of the portrait, particularly as represented in the novel itself. Working with the novels of Richardson, Fielding, Haywood, Manley, Sterne, Wollstonecraft and Inchbald, and the portraits of Reynolds, Gainsborough, Highmore, Hudson, Hogarth, and others, Private Interests points to the intimate connections between the literary works and the paintings. Arguing that the novel's representation of the portrait sustains a tension between competing definitions of private interests, Conway shows how private interests are figured as simultaneously decorous and illicit in the novel, with the portrait at once an instrument of propriety and of scandal. Examining women's roles as both authors of and characters in the novel and the novel's encounters with the portrait, the author provides a new definition of private interests, one which highlights the development of women's agency as both spectacles and spectators.