Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century LiteratureThis book confronts a significant paradox in the development of literary realism: the very novels that present themselves as purveyors and celebrants of direct, ordinary human experience also manifest an obsession with art that threatens to sabotage their Realist claims. Unlike previous studies of the role of visual art, or music, or theatre in Victorian literature, Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature examines the juxtaposition of all of these arts in the works of Charlotte Brontė, William Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and others. Alison Byerly combines close textual analysis with discussion of relevant ancillary topics to illuminate the place of different arts within nineteenth-century British culture. Her book, which also contains sixteen illustrations, represents an effort to bridge the growing gap between aesthetics and cultural studies. |
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Contents
The picturesque aesthetic and the natural art of song | 14 |
art as spectacle in William | 50 |
George Eliots hierarchy of representation | 106 |
Thomas Hardy and the labor of creation | 149 |
the erasure of the real | 184 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 12 of Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture |
| Authors | Alison Byerly, Byerly Alison |
| Contributor | Gillian Beer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0521581168, 9780521581165 |
| Length | 231 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General |
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