The portrait in fiction of the Romantic period /

The portrait in fiction of the Romantic period /

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Author / Creator:	Bray, Joe, author.
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. ©2016
Description:	195 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Portraits in literature. Subjectivity in literature. Romanticism -- Great Britain. English fiction. Portraits in literature. Romanticism. Subjectivity in literature. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10807830

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ISBN:	9781409470397 1409470393 9781409470410 1409470415
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in both form and function during the Romantic age, Joe Bray examines how these changes are reflected in the fiction of writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Hamilton and Amelia Opie. Bray considers portraiture in a broad sense as encompassing caricature and the miniature, as well as the classic portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds and others. He argues that the portrait in fiction often functions not as a transparent index to character or as a means of producing a straightforward likeness, but rather as a cue for misreading and a sign of the slipperiness and subjectivity of interpretation. The book is concerned with more than simply the appearance of portraits in Romantic fiction however. More broadly, The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period investigates how the language of portraiture pervades the novel in this period and how the two art forms exert mutual stylistic influence on each other" --

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Summary:	Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in both form and function during the Romantic age, Joe Bray examines how these changes are reflected in the fiction of writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Hamilton and Amelia Opie. Bray considers portraiture in a broad sense as encompassing caricature and the miniature, as well as the classic portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds and others. He argues that the portrait in fiction often functions not as a transparent index to character or as a means of producing a straightforward likeness, but rather as a cue for misreading and a sign of the slipperiness and subjectivity of interpretation. The book is concerned with more than simply the appearance of portraits in Romantic fiction, however. More broadly, The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period investigates how the language of portraiture pervades the novel in this period and how the two art forms exert mutual stylistic influence on each other.
Physical Description:	195 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781409470397 1409470393 9781409470410 1409470415