Ornament, the novel, and the Victorian real /
'Ornament, the Novel, and the Victorian Real' explores the intersection of literary form with visual culture in the Victorian period. In charting the contributions of decorative design to novelistic realism, it shows how deeply the major genre of the period is indebted to an aesthetic form...
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Ornament, the Novel, and the Victorian Real
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: As Nature
- Overview of Chapters
- 1 The Ornamental Real: Visual and Linguistic
- Laws of Leaves, of Bodies, of Mind
- Stories of Here and Elsewhere
- Ornamental Prose
- 2 A. C. Swinburne's Art-Botanical Prose
- Swinburne among the Art Botanists
- The Adjectival Topic: Some Quantitative Findings about Lesbia Brandon
- Blazon: Description's Ornamentation
- Decorative Knowledge: Land-Prose and Narrative Brutality
- 3 Ardently Adorned Middlemarch
- Developing Form
- Dresser's Dorothea: An Interior
- The Temptation toward Intemperance
- 4 Decorating Murder: Oscar Wilde's Wallpaper
- Composing in Flat Color: Character into Abstract Pattern
- How to Decorate a Murder
- Applying One's Materials
- Color Spoiled by Meaning
- 5: Becoming Ornate
- Nervous Outlines
- Dialogue: Managing Forces
- Conclusion: Environments
- 6: D. H. Lawrence's Stained Glass
- Feeling Submitted to the Laws of an Object
- Fragment and Rainbow: Some Contexts
- Color as Event
- Panel Narrated/Process Translated
- Stained-Glass Vision
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Notes to Introduction
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Notes to Chapter 6
- Notes to Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index