Author: BO JEFFARES
Title: The Artist in 19th Century English fiction
Description: Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, Colin Smythe. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0901072907) Boards. Book, Illustrated. Inside of dustwrapper slightly stained along edges. "This book sets out to prove that an artist, such as a painter or sculptor, was an extremely popular figure in nineteenth century fiction. Good and bad literature alike show that the fictional artist appealed to popular as well as intellectual imagination. Fictional artists embodied many elements of the romantic myth. In them, the student of romanticism finds, for example, a comprehensive symbol of the bohemian outcast and the suffering creator. An examination of representative passages from fine writers, such as Henry James, when these are juxtaposed with the work of cruder novelists, such as Ouida, allows the reader to appreciate the subtleties in varying treatments of this romantic hero. And a certain ironic pleasure can be derived from casting an eye over some of the often amusing absurdities of the genre.". Very Good/Good.

Keywords: 0901072907 English Literature, Literary History, Criticism, Northanger Abbey, Beardsley,Magdalen Wynard, Averil Beaumont, E.F. Benson, William Black, Browning, Charles Clark, Louisa Costello, M.M. Dowie, Trilby, George Du Maurier, George Eliot, George Gis


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