TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilmore,Dehn
TI  - The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art: Fictional Form on Display 
T2  - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
SN  - 9781107360037 (ebook)
AV  - PR830.A74 G55 2013
U1  - 823.009/357 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Art in literature
KW  - Arts in literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - This interdisciplinary study argues for the vital importance of visual culture as a force shaping the Victorian novel's formal development and reading history. It shows how authors like Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy borrowed language and conceptual formations from art world spaces - the art market, the museum, the large-scale exhibition, and art critical discourse - not only when they chose certain subjects or refined certain aspects of realism, but also when they tried to adapt various genres of the novel for a new and newly vociferous mass audience. Quandaries specific to new forms of public display affected authors' sense of their relationship with their own public. Debates about how best to appreciate a new mass of visual information impacted authors' sense of how people read, and consequently the development of particular novel forms like the multi-plot novel, the historical novel, the sensation novel, and fin-de-siècle fiction
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360037
ER  -