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



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Autore: Conway Alison Margaret Visualizza persona
Titolo: Private interests : women, portraiture, and the visual culture of the English novel, 1709-1791 / / Alison Conway Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001
©2001
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
Disciplina: 823/.509357
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Englisch
England
Soggetto genere / forma: Livres numeriques.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
e-books.
Electronic books.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Private interests  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-01439-0
9786612014390
1-4426-7876-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780565703321
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