Format:
195 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781409470397
Content:
"Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in both form and function during the Romantic age, Joe Bray examines how these changes are reflected in the fiction of writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Hamilton and Amelia Opie. Bray considers portraiture in a broad sense as encompassing caricature and the miniature, as well as the classic portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds and others. He argues that the portrait in fiction often functions not as a transparent index to character or as a means of producing a straightforward likeness, but rather as a cue for misreading and a sign of the slipperiness and subjectivity of interpretation. The book is concerned with more than simply the appearance of portraits in Romantic fiction however. More broadly, The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period investigates how the language of portraiture pervades the novel in this period and how the two art forms exert mutual stylistic influence on each other" --
Content:
Introduction. the portrait and the novel -- The portrait in public -- Exchanging "dear self": the miniature portrait in the novel of sensibility and the gothic -- Visual and verbal caricature -- Jane Austen: the subjectivity of "likeness" -- Sir Walter Scott: reworking the gothic portrait -- Conclusion. "the very thing itself
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 184-191
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781315554150
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Bray, Joe The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period Abingdon : Taylor and Francis, 2016 ISBN 9781409470397
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
England
;
Literatur
;
Bildnis
;
Bildnismalerei
;
Romantik
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