The Edinburgh companion to the cighteenth-century British novel and the arts /
Offers compelling insights into the eighteenth-century novel and its vibrant relationships with the arts.
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts
- Part I: Styles and Discourses
- 1. Invisibility and Narration in Haywood (and Behn and Fielding)
- 2. Orientalism and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- 3. Crafting the Past: Antiquarianism, Decorative Handicrafts and the Novel at the Mid-Century
- 4. Anatomy, Invasion and Imagination: Reading Gender, Medicine and the Body in the Mid-Century Novel
- Part II: Visual Cultures
- 5. Before and After: Imagining Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century British Art and Literature, from Defoe and Hogarth to Sterne and Gainsborough
- 6. The Art of Architecture and the Form of the Novel
- 7. 'The statue cannot be formed, unless our inclination concur thereto': Statuary and Sculpture in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- 8. Depicting Beautiful Women in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- 9. Stories behind Pictures: Reconstructing a Pre-History of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
- 10. The Romances of Ann Radcliffe and the 'Total Work of Art'
- Part III: Modes and Spaces of Performance
- 11. Haywood's Whimsical Adventures: The Novel and the Rococo
- 12. Song in the Novels of Samuel Richardson
- 13. Vexed Diversions: Gulliver's Travels, the Arts and Popular Entertainment
- 14. Songs, Stories and Sentimentalism: The British Broadside Ballad as Sentimental Fiction
- 15. 'Novel Romance makes me puke!': Burneys, Shakespeares and the Sentimental Plot
- 16. Polite Arts/The Arts of Politeness: Manners, Hypocrisy and the Performance of the Self
- 17. Musical 'Epiphanies' in the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel
- 18. Jane Austen's Art of Elocution: Discerning Feeling in Persuasion
- Part IV: Networks and Interactions
- 19. Multimedia Coterie Romance
- 20. The Art of Reading and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: The Case of The History of Charlotte Summers, The Fortunate Parish Girl
- 21. The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Sociable Arts
- 22. Novels, Paintings and the Half-Trained Eye in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Reading Culture
- Part V: Adaptations and Afterlives
- 23. From Visual to Material Culture: The Afterlives of Frontispieces to Robinson Crusoe
- 24. Text Transformed into Silkwork: British Needlework Pictures and the Adaptation of Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter
- 25. Extra-Illustration and the Seduction of a 'Standard' Text: James Comerford's Erotic Books
- 26. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Art of Graphic Satire, from Character to Constellation
- 27. Contemporary Art and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- 28. Invoking the Implied Viewer in the Eighteenth-Century Novel on Film
- Notes on Contributors
- Index