Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780367667276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 164 str.

Jakub Lipski

Opis

This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of their fictions.

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O autorze

Jakub Lipski is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz. Before obtaining 　his PhD in English Literature (University of Warsaw, 2013), he had studied English, Cultural Studies and Art History. He is the author of　In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel　(Brill/Rodopi, 2014) and co-editor of　The Enchantress of Words, Sounds and Images: Anniversary Essays on Ann Radcliffe　(Academica Press, 2015). His research interests include eighteenth-century English literature and culture, as well as the correspondences between word and image.