The Imprint of the Picturesque on Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

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Alexander M. Ross's book is a monograph in the best sense of the word: a short book on a single theme by a devoted expert. In recent years, with the increasing number of interdisciplinary ventures designed to break down the self-imposed barriers between specialist disciplines, there have been s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ross, Alexander M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Picturesque, The, in literature.
English fiction.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Pittoresque dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Alexander M. Ross's book is a monograph in the best sense of the word: a short book on a single theme by a devoted expert. In recent years, with the increasing number of interdisciplinary ventures designed to break down the self-imposed barriers between specialist disciplines, there have been several studies of the relation of individual novelists - Eliot, Hardy, James - to the visual arts. But there have been few more general inquiries into the interconnections between fiction and painting. Ross has made good this deficiency in one important area. He has taken the cult of the picturesque,
Physical Description:1 online resource (218 pages).
ISBN:9780889206267

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