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.

Product details

• Authors: Byerly Alison, Alison Byerly, Alison (Middlebury College Byerly
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.1998
• EAN: 9780521581165
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58116-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies