Painting the Novel - Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of their fictions.

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About the author

Jakub Lipski is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz. Before obtaining his PhD in English Literature (University of Warsaw, 2013), he had studied English, Cultural Studies and Art History. He is the author of In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Brill/Rodopi, 2014) and co-editor of The Enchantress of Words, Sounds and Images: Anniversary Essays on Ann Radcliffe (Academica Press, 2015). His research interests include eighteenth-century English literature and culture, as well as the correspondences between word and image.

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This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of their fictions.

Product details

• Authors: Jakub Lipski, Lipski Jakub
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367667276
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66727-6
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, ART / History / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism