02425nam a22003738a 4500 CR9781107360037 UkCbUP 20180107143415.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 130308s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781107360037 (ebook) 9781107044227 (hardback) 9781107621268 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PR830.A74 G55 2013 823.009/357 23 Gilmore, Dehn, author. The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art : Fictional Form on Display / [electronic resource] Dehn Gilmore. The Victorian Novel & the Space of Art Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; no. 89 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). This interdisciplinary study argues for the vital importance of visual culture as a force shaping the Victorian novel's formal development and reading history. It shows how authors like Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy borrowed language and conceptual formations from art world spaces - the art market, the museum, the large-scale exhibition, and art critical discourse - not only when they chose certain subjects or refined certain aspects of realism, but also when they tried to adapt various genres of the novel for a new and newly vociferous mass audience. Quandaries specific to new forms of public display affected authors' sense of their relationship with their own public. Debates about how best to appreciate a new mass of visual information impacted authors' sense of how people read, and consequently the development of particular novel forms like the multi-plot novel, the historical novel, the sensation novel, and fin-de-siècle fiction. Art in literature Arts in literature Print version: 9781107044227 Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; no. 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360037 Cambridge Books Online 236679 236679