The Critical Picturesque
Author | : Richard Ingersoll |
Publisher | : materialverlag |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3932395743 |
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Author | : Richard Ingersoll |
Publisher | : materialverlag |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3932395743 |
Author | : Alexander M. Ross |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0889206260 |
"Despite the negative criticism directed at its sentiment, its heartlessness, its superficiality, the picturesque remained in both art and fiction of Victorian England a mode of seeing that even the greatest of the artists and novelists relied upon from time to time so that their viewers and readers could rejoice in the instant recognition of place and character distinctly limned and sometimes subtly enough to elicit sympathy" (Preface). After briefly tracing the development of the theory of the picturesque in the eighteenth-century writings of William Gilpin, Sir Uvedale Price, and Richard Payne Knight and examining how nineteenth-century novelists accommodated aesthetic theory to the practice of fiction, Ross focuses on the use of the picturesque in the works of Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. The persistence of the picturesque through novels ranging from Waverley to Jude the Obscure and in writers like Dickens and Eliot, who had little respect for its conventions, attests to its strength and attraction in nineteenth-century literature.
Author | : Stephen Copley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1994-03-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521441137 |
Essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ways of looking at landscape, in theory and practice.
Author | : Valerie Derbyshire |
Publisher | : Vernon Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2019-12-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1622737466 |
This book considers the relationships between British Romantic-era novelist, poet and writer of educational works for children, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806), and a number of visual artists of the eighteenth century with whom she had connections. By exploring these associations with artists such as George Smith of Chichester, George Romney, James Northcote, John Raphael Smith and Emma Smith, the book demonstrates how the artwork of these individual artists influenced Charlotte Smith’s literary corpus. It also shows a mutual influence: how the literary works of Charlotte Smith impacted the corpora of these artists. This study uncovers information which was not heretofore known regarding these artists: it reveals a mistaken attribution of a sketch which accompanied the second volume of Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets (1797) and sheds light on a print, held by the British Museum, which was previously shrouded in mystery. The artworks also enhance the existing scholarly knowledge about Smith’s biography. This book analyses the tropes and motifs employed by Smith’s artist-associates in the context of the popular aesthetics of the period and undertakes parallel readings between such visual artistry and Smith’s literary works. The book deliberates on how Smith utilises these aesthetics as narrative devices, making use of the tropes of the picturesque, the sublime and the beautiful, as well as that of a national British heraldic artwork, in order to produce and enhance meaning in her literary oeuvre. Thus, Smith uses aesthetic structures as vehicles for social critique, commentating on political, gender, moral and class concerns in addition to enhancing the perceived authenticity of her own artistry. The scholarship aims to correct the common misperception that Smith was a lonely marginal figure of Romanticism and instead asserts her central position in an enormous network of key artistic figures of British Romanticism.
Author | : George Gissing |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2012-05-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0752486691 |
Charles Dickens was in his own day the most popular novelist who had ever lived, a public figure adored like a present-day pop star. He still holds his place as one of the greatest English writers, an original genius whose novels are an essential link in the canon of English literature. He was also actively involved in the life of his time, campaigning for social and educational reform and sharply critical of contemporary society. This short biography provides an excellent introduction to Dickens, from his disturbed childhood with a traumatic period working in a blacking factory, his instant success as a young writer and his tumultuous acclaim in both England and America, the major novels of the 1850s and '60s and the establishment of Household Words, to the final years as a public performer of his own work.
Author | : Tobias Smollett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1774 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Books |
ISBN | : |