Research Catalog

Title

Private interests [electronic resource] : women, portraiture, and the visual culture of the English novel, 1709-1791 / Alison Conway.

Author

Conway, Alison.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xii, 293 p., [28] p. of plates) : ports.

Uniform Title

Private interests (Online)

Alternative Title

Private interests (Online)

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-285) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

LCCN

2001277957

OCLC

ssj0000306929

Author

Conway, Alison.

Title

Private interests [electronic resource] : women, portraiture, and the visual culture of the English novel, 1709-1791 / Alison Conway.

Imprint

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-285) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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