The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art

by Dehn Gilmore

This interdisciplinary study argues for the vital importance of visual culture as a force shaping the Victorian novel's formal development and reading history. It shows how authors like Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy borrowed language and conceptual formations from art world spaces - the art market, the museum, the large-scale exhibition, and art critical discourse - not only when they chose certain subjects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107044227
• ISBN13: 9781107044227
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"