The Imprint of the Picturesque on Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

by Alexander M. Ross and Alexander Murdock Ross

Book Overview

"Despite the negative criticism directed at its sentiment, its heartlessness, its superficiality, the picturesque remained in both art and fiction of Victorian England a mode of seeing that even the greatest of the artists and novelists relied upon from time to time so that their viewers and readers could rejoice in the instant recognition of place and character distinctly limned and sometimes subtly enough to elicit sympathy" (Preface).

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889201919
• ISBN13: 9780889201910
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"