The imprint of the picturesque on nineteenth-century British fiction / / Alexander M. Ross
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| Autore: |
Ross Alexander M
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| Titolo: |
The imprint of the picturesque on nineteenth-century British fiction / / Alexander M. Ross
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| Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., Canada, : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1986 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 800 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Picturesque, The, in literature | |
| 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, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Imprint of the picturesque on nineteenth century british fiction |
| ISBN: | 1-55458-578-3 |
| 1-282-23345-9 | |
| 9786613811196 | |
| 0-88920-626-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816328703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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