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Private interests : women, portraiture, and the visual culture of the English novel, 1709-1791 /

This ambitious interdisciplinary study undertakes a new definition of the eighteenth-century novel's investment in vision and visual culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the novel and that of the equally contentious genre of the portrait, particularly as represented in t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conway, Alison
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The novel and the portrait in eighteenth-century England
  • Envisioning literary interest: Manley's The New Atalantis
  • "Ravished sight": picturing Clarissa
  • Refiguring virtue: The history of Miss Betsy Thoughtless and Amelia
  • "Paint her to your own mind": Sterne's concupiscible narratives
  • Portraits of the woman artist: Kauffman, Wollstonecraft, and Inchbald.