Victorian Novel and the Space of Art

The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art Fictional Form on Display / [electronic resource] The Victorian Novel & the Space of Art Gilmore, Dehn creator author. text enk 2013 monographic eng 1 online resource (260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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-si�cle fiction. Dehn Gilmore. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Art in literature Arts in literature PR830.A74 G55 2013 823.009/357 Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; no. 89 Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; no. 89 9781107360037 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360037 UkCbUP 130308 20180107143415.0 CR9781107360037