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Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period

Joe Bray
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      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Joe Bray EAN: 9780367879884 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 453 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-12-12 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of art, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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      Joe Bray is Reader in Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Joe Bray EAN: 9780367879884 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 453 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-12-12 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of art, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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      Joe Bray is Reader in Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.

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