Title Private interests : women, portraiture, and the visual culture of the English novel, 1709-1791 / Alison Conway

Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 293 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates) : portraits Contents The novel and the portrait in eighteenth-century England -- Envisioning literary interest: Manley's The New Atalantis -- "Ravished sight": picturing Clarissa -- Refiguring virtue: The history of Miss Betsy Thoughtless and Amelia -- "Paint her to your own mind": Sterne's concupiscible narratives -- Portraits of the woman artist: Kauffman, Wollstonecraft, and Inchbald Summary This ambitious interdisciplinary study undertakes a new definition of the eighteenth-century novel's investment in vision and visual culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the novel and that of the equally contentious genre of the portrait, particularly as represented in the novel itself. Working with the novels of Richardson, Fielding, Haywood, Manley, Sterne, Wollstonecraft and Inchbald, and the portraits of Reynolds, Gainsborough, Highmore, Hudson, Hogarth, and others, Private Interests points to the intimate connections between the literary works and the paintings. Arguing that the novel's representation of the portrait sustains a tension between competing definitions of private interests, Conway shows how private interests are figured as simultaneously decorous and illicit in the novel, with the portrait at once an instrument of propriety and of scandal. Examining women's roles as both authors of and characters in the novel and the novel's encounters with the portrait, the author provides a new definition of private interests, one which highlights the development of women's agency as both spectacles and spectators Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index SUBJECT Frau -- Porträt -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Roman -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1709-1791. idszbz Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism Art and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century Visual perception in literature. Portraits in literature. Women in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Art and literature English fiction Portraits in literature Visual perception in literature Women and literature Women in literature Bildnis Roman Frau Frauenporträt -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 18. Jh. Frauenroman -- englischer -- Geschichte 18. Jh. Roman -- englischer -- Motiv -- Frau. Frau -- Motiv -- Roman -- englischer. Roman -- englischer -- Malerei -- Geschichte 18. Jh. Malerei -- Roman -- englischer -- Geschichte 18. Jh. Roman -- Englisch -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Frau -- Porträt -- Geschichte -- 1709-1791. Porträt -- Frau -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Roman -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1709-1791. Geschichte 1709-1791. England Englisch. Genre/Form Electronic books e-books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Livres numériques. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442678767 1442678763 1282014390 9781282014398

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