The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism

The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism
Author: Richard C. Sha
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1512807362

With their broken lines and hasty brushwork, sketches acquired enormous ideological and aesthetic power during the Romantic period in England. Whether publicly displayed or serving as the basis of a written genre, these rough drawings played a central role in the cultural ferment of the age by persuading audiences that less is more. The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism investigates the varied implications of sketching in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century culture. Calling on a wide range of literary and visual genres, Richard C. Sha examines the shifting economic and aesthetic value of the sketch in sources ranging from auction catalogs and sketching manuals to novels that employed scenes of sketching and courtship. He especially shows how sketching became a double-edged accomplishment for women when used to define "proper" femininity. Sha's work offers fresh readings of Austen, Gilpin, Wordsworth, and Byron, as well as less familiar writers, and provides sophisticated interpretations of visual sketches. As the first full-length work about sketching during the Romantic era, this volume is a rich interdisciplinary study of both representation and gender.

Recognizing the Romantic Novel

Recognizing the Romantic Novel
Author: Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1846315026

The field of literature changed dramatically at the end of the eighteenth century, as under the shadow of Romanticism the novel became the most important literary genre of its day. Often neglected, the novels of the Romantic era puzzle critics yet are much more concerned with the unexpected, the unconventional, and the uncanny than their immediate predecessors or successors, and their authors include some of the most important novelists of British literary history—Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, James Hogg, Mary Shelley, and Sir Walter Scott among them. Featuring contributions from distinguished scholars in the field, Recognizing the Romantic Novel evaluates the vibrancy and centrality of the Romantic novel, showcasing the important new voices and directions in the field and showing it can hold its own in the canon of literary scholarship. “These essays offer us a lens through which we may recognize the Romantic novel as it has never been recognized before.”—Times Literary Supplement

Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts

Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts
Author: Hannah Moss
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre:
ISBN: 1399500422

Jane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts considers how Austen represents the arts in her writing, from her juvenilia to her mature novels. The thirty-three original chapters in this Companion cover the full range of Austen's engagement with the arts, including the silhouette and the caricature, crafts, theatre, fashion, music and dance, together with the artistic potential of both interior and exterior spaces. This volume also explores her artistic afterlives in creative re-imaginings across different media, including adaptations and transpositions in film, television, theatre, digital platforms and games.

A Handbook of Romanticism Studies

A Handbook of Romanticism Studies
Author: Joel Faflak
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1119129613

The Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the study of Romanticism. Focuses on British Romanticism while also addressing continental and transatlantic Romanticism and earlier periods Utilizes keywords such as imagination, sublime, poetics, philosophy, race, historiography, and visual culture as points of access to the study of Romanticism and the theoretical concerns and the culture of the period Explores topics central to Romanticism studies and the critical trends of the last thirty years

Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages

Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages
Author: Eavan O'Dochartaigh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108834337

Uncovering a wealth of archival information, Eavan O'Dochartaigh gives fresh and surprising insight into the Victorian image of the Arctic.

The Brontës in the World of the Arts

The Brontës in the World of the Arts
Author: Sandra Hagan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351893505

Although previous scholarship has acknowledged the importance of the visual arts to the Brontës, relatively little attention has been paid to the influence of music, theatre, and material culture on the siblings' lives and literature. This interdisciplinary collection presents new research on the Brontës' relationship to the wider world of the arts, including their relationship to the visual arts. The contributors examine the siblings' artistic ambitions, productions, and literary representations of creative work in both amateur and professional realms. Also considered are re-envisionings of the Brontës' works, with an emphasis on those created in the artistic media the siblings themselves knew or practiced. With essays by scholars who represent the fields of literary studies, music, art, theatre studies, and material culture, the volume brings together the strongest current research and suggests areas for future work on the Brontës and their cultural contexts.

Art and Modern Copyright

Art and Modern Copyright
Author: Elena Cooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2018-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107179726

The first in-depth study of the history of copyright protecting the visual arts, uncovering long-forgotten narratives of copyright history and reflecting on how those sharpen the critical lens through which we view copyright today. It will appeal to copyright lawyers, scholars and policy-makers, as well as to art historians and curators.

Teaching Romanticism

Teaching Romanticism
Author: D. Higgins
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2010-01-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230276482

Romanticism is taught at universities across the globe and is considered integral to the study of British and European literature. This book, written by leading academics, presents innovative, practical approaches to teaching traditional and newer aspects of the curriculum and is essential to anyone teaching Romanticism at university level.

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre
Author: David Duff
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2009-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199572747

This reappraisal of the role of genre in Romanticism explores the generic innovations that drove the Romantic 'revolution in literature'. Also examined is the movement's fascination with archaic forms such as the ballad, the sonnet, and the epic, the revival of which made Romanticism a 'retro' as well as a revolutionary movement.

Technologies of the Picturesque

Technologies of the Picturesque
Author: Ron Broglio
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780838757000

With considerable learning and insight, Broglio reveals how artists are both complicit with such objectification of nature, and at other moments work toward a more vivid connection to the environment."--BOOK JACKET.