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1 online resource (260 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the Victorian novel and visual art including galleries, museums and The Great Exhibition. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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19th century |
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Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Art and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Art in literature.
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Art in literature. |
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Arts in literature.
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Arts in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gilmore, Dehn, 1980- Victorian novel and the space of art 9781107044227 (DLC) 2013032791 (OCoLC)859223692 |
| ISBN |
9781107693845 (electronic book) |
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1107693845 (electronic book) |
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9781107360037 (electronic book) |
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110736003X (electronic book) |
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9781107598799 |
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1107598796 |
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9781107044227 |
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1107044227 |
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