Private Interests: Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791

Alison Conway

Published by University of Toronto Press 2001

Private Interests

Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791

Alison Conway

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442678767

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This study undertakes a new definition of the 18th-century novel’s investment in visual culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the novel and that of the portrait, particularly as represented in the novel itself.

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Conway Alison :

Alison Conway is Professor of English and Cultural Studies, and of Gender and Women's Studies, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. The Novel and the Portrait in Eighteenth-Century England Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Chapter Two. Envisioning Literary Interest: Manley's The New Atalantis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Chapter Three. 'Ravished Sight': Picturing Clarissa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Chapter Four. Refiguring Virtue: The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless and Amelia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Chapter Five. Taint her to your own mind': Sterne's Concupiscible Narratives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Chapter Six. Portraits of the Woman Artist: Kauffman, Wollstonecraft, and Inchbald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 328

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Published: September 5, 2001
ISBN: 9781442678767