Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Alison

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This book examines the representation of a variety of arts—primarily painting, theater, and music—within the work of major nineteenth-century novelists. It charts a historical progression, from Romantic poetry, through mid-century Realism, to Aestheticism, showing how authors used references to other forms of art to illuminate their own aesthetic ideals. Examining the aesthetic theory and cultural practice of different arts, Alison Byerly demonstrates the importance of artistic representation to the development of Victorian Realism.

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This 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 Bronte, 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.

Author Biography

Byerly-Middlebury College

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The picturesque aesthetic and the natural art of song; 2. Masterpiece theatres: art as spectacle in William Thackeray and Charlotte Bronte; 3. George Eliot's hierarchy of representation; 4. Art works: Thomas Hardy and the labor of creation; Coda: aestheticism: the erasure of the real; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Review

'... an impressive study of the representation of painting, music and the theatre in the works of Charlotte Bronte, William Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy ... a significant work in interdisciplinary studies of literature.' Andrew Brown, Magdalene College, Cambridge University "Byerly's 16 pages of bibliography reflect the considerable scholarship of the past 25 years on Victorian theatrical and musical performance, art as painting or illustration, and architecture as cultural record." Choice "Alison Byerly's rich, stimulating, wide-ranging, and admirably compact new book raises a provocative set of questions." Australasian Victorian Studies Journal "...makes an important contribution to the study of Victorian culture." Victorian Periodicals Review "... a persuasive, thoroughly readable, and well-constructed book." Jennifer Green-Lewis, Victorian Studies "...a useful and stimulating contribution to studies of the interrelations among the arts in Victorian England...All students will enjoy and, one hopes, learn something from Byerly's clear thinking and writing." Modern Philology

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"...makes an important contribution to the study of Victorian culture." Victorian Periodicals Review

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Painting, theatre, and music within the work of major nineteenth-century novelists.

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This book examines the representation of painting, theatre, and music within the work of major nineteenth-century novelists. Examining the aesthetic theory and cultural practice of different arts, Alison Byerly demonstrates the importance of artistic representation to the development of Victorian Realism.

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This book examines the representation of painting, theatre, and music within the work of major nineteenth-century novelists. Examining the aesthetic theory and cultural practice of different arts, Alison Byerly demonstrates the importance of artistic representation to the development of Victorian Realism.

Details ISBN0521025346 Author Alison Byerly Short Title REALISM REPRESENTATION & THE A Pages 244 Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 0521025346 ISBN-13 9780521025348 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 820.935 Series Number 12 Illustrations Yes Year 2006 Publication Date 2006-03-31 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st Series Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Paperback) Affiliation Middlebury College, Vermont DOI 10.1604/9780521025348 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 2006-03-30 AU Release Date 2006-03-30 NZ Release Date 2006-03-30 We've got this

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