Dehn Gilmore

The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art

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Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the Victorian novel and visual art including galleries, museums and The Great Exhibition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781107044227
• ISBN-10: 1107044227
• Artikelnr.: 39498692

Autorenporträt

Dehn Gilmore is Assistant Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: seeing how the Victorians saw
1. Terms of art: reading the Dickensian gallery
2. The difficulty of historical work in the nineteenth-century museum and the Thackeray 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.