Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Zusammenfassung This book examines the representation of painting! theatre! and music within the work of major nineteenth-century novelists. Examining the aesthetic theory and cultural practice of different arts! Alison Byerly demonstrates the importance of artistic representation to the development of Victorian Realism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The picturesque aesthetic and the natural art of song; 2. Masterpiece theatres: art as spectacle in William Thackeray and Charlotte Brontë; 3. George Eliot's hierarchy of representation; 4. Art works: Thomas Hardy and the labor of creation; Coda: aestheticism: the erasure of the real; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Byerly Alison, Alison Byerly, Alison (Middlebury College Byerly
• Assisted by: Gillian Beer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521025348
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02534-8
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies