The Victorian novel and the space of art fictional form on display /
Dehn Gilmore.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (260 pages)
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Seeing how the Victorians saw; Glimpses; A closer look; Literary expansions; Literary uncertainty; Artistic expansions; Artistic uncertainty; A tour; Intersections; Chapter 1Terms of art: reading the Dickensian gallery; The rise of the middle-class collector; A revolution in taste and the rise of aesthetic mixture; The gallery's glare and bustle; Dickens and the art market; Dickens as writer and painter; Dickens for readers and viewers; The novel and the gallery, the novel as gallery Chapter 2The difficulty of historical work in the nineteenth-century museum and the Thackerayan novelTrouble in the historical novel and at the museum; The museums' messy cleanup; Thackeray and the museum; Esmond and the museum; The art of Thackeray's critics; Chapter 3"Truly it was astonishing!": the exhibition, the sensation novel, and the culture of the spectacular; The great exhibitions; The unbewildered gaze; The Woman in White and the exhibition; Familiar looking and the sensation novel; Repeated looking and the sensation novel Chapter 4"The interesting subject of the art of the future": Thomas Hardy and the historicity of tasteHardy as aficionado; The rise of the art critic; The art of the present; The art of the future; Hardy and the art of the future; A Laodicean: an ambivalent stance; The Hand of Ethelberta: the museum versus the Royal Academy; Jude the Obscure: the death of taste; The Well-Beloved: farewell to all that; An afterword from the British Museum: the viewing voice; Conclusion Rethinking how we see the Victorians; Notes; Introduction:Seeing how the Victorians saw 1 Terms of art: reading the Dickensian gallery2 The difficulty of historical work in the nineteenth-century museum and the Thackerayan novel; 3"Truly it was astonishing!": the exhibition, the sensation novel, and the culture of the spectacular; 4 "The interesting subject of the art of the future": Thomas Hardy and the historicity of taste; Conclusion Rethinking how we see the Victorians; Bibliography; Primary sources; Secondarysources; Index
An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the Victorian novel and visual art including galleries, museums and The Great Exhibition.
9781107693845
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century Art and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century. Art in literature. Arts in literature.