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Author:

Conway, Alison Margaret.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xii, 293 p., [28] p. of plates : ports. ; 24 cm.

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.

Notes:

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

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.

ISBN:

9780802035264 (acid-free paper)
0802035264 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46625453

LCCN:

2001277957

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)