The Edinburgh companion to the eighteenth-century British novel and the arts

Abstract

"The eighteenth century witnessed an explosion in new literary and creative forms that rapidly expanded, and the relations between which became more complex. This has typically been described as a period that ushered in the novel form: the malleability of the concept of the novel genre and its history opens up intriguing possibilities for its role within wider networks of interartistic relationships in the period. This Companion is concerned with how the fertile conversations that different artforms enjoyed in the long eighteenth century intersected fruitfully with the emergent shapes of prose fiction. The essays comprising this volume range from the important overview to the case study, providing readers with a unique opportunity to navigate a vast and sprawling terrain through engaging scholarly insights."--Provided by publisher.

Contents

The eighteenth-century British novel and the arts / Jakub Lipski ; M-C. Newbould -- Styles and discourses. Invisibility and narration in Haywood (and Behn and Fielding) / Marcie Frank -- Orientalism and sexuality in the eighteenth-century novel / James Watt -- Crafting the past : antiquarianism, decorative handicrafts and the novel at the mid-century / Katharina Boehm -- Anatomy, invasion and imagination : reading gender, medicine and the body in the mid-century novel / Ashleigh Blackwood -- Visual cultures. Before and after : imagining pleasure in eighteenth-century British art and literature, from Defoe and Hogarth to Sterne and Gainsborough / Frederic Ogee -- The art of architecture and the form of the novel / Chris Ewers -- 'The statue cannot be formed, unless our inclination concur thereto' : statuary and sculpture in the eighteenth-century novel / M-C. Newbould -- Depicting beautiful women in the eighteenth-century novel / Katherine Aske -- Stories behind pictures : reconstructing a pre-history of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto / Jakub Lipski -- The romances of Ann Radcliffe and the 'Total Work of Art' / Hannah Moss -- Modes and spaces of performance. Haywood's whimsical adventures : the novel and the Rococo / Joseph Drury -- Song in the novels of Samuel Richardson / Elizabeth Kraft -- Vexed diversions: Gulliver's Travels, the arts and popular entertainment / Daniel Cook -- Songs, stories and sentimentalism : the British broadside ballad as sentimental fiction / Georgina Bartlett -- 'Novel Romance makes me puke!' : Burneys, Shakespeares and the sentimental plot / Mascha Hansen -- Polite arts/the arts of politeness : manners, hypocrisy and the performance of the self / Przemyslaw Uscinski -- Musical 'epiphanies' in the late eighteenth-century novel / Pierre Dubois -- Jane Austen's art of elocution : discerning feeling in Persuasion / Fraser Easton -- Networks and interactions. Multimedia coterie romance / Natasha Simonova -- The art of reading and the eighteenth-century novel : the case of the history of Charlotte Summers, The Fortunate Parish Girl / Joanna Maciulewicz -- The eighteenth-century novel and the sociable arts / Emrys D. Jones -- Novels, paintings and the half-trained eye in mid-eighteenth-century reading culture / Paul Goring -- Adaptations and afterlives. From visual to material culture : the afterlives of Frontispieces to Robinson Crusoe / Nathalie Colle -- Text transformed into silkwork : British needlework pictures and the adaptation of Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter / Sandro Jung -- Extra-illustration and the seduction of a 'standard' text : James Comerford's erotic books / Helen Williams -- Eighteenth-century fiction and the art of graphic satire, from character to constellation / Brigitte Friant-Kessler -- Contemporary art and the eighteenth-century novel / Amelia Dale -- Invoking the implied viewer in the eighteenth-century novel on film / Jennifer Preston Wilson.