Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

by Jakub Lipski

Book Overview

Painting 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367667274
• ISBN13: 9780367667276
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages