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Private Interests - Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791 (Paperback)
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Private Interests - Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791 (Paperback)
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This ambitious interdisciplinary study undertakes a new definition
of the eighteenth-century novel's investment in vision and visual
culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the
novel and that of the equally contentious genre of the portrait,
particularly as represented in the novel itself. Working with the
novels of Richardson, Fielding, Haywood, Manley, Sterne,
Wollstonecraft and Inchbald, and the portraits of Reynolds,
Gainsborough, Highmore, Hudson, Hogarth, and others, Private
Interests points to the intimate connections between the literary
works and the paintings. Arguing that the novel's representation of
the portrait sustains a tension between competing definitions of
private interests, Conway shows how private interests are figured
as simultaneously decorous and illicit in the novel, with the
portrait at once an instrument of propriety and of scandal.
Examining women's roles as both authors of and characters in the
novel and the novel's encounters with the portrait, the author
provides a new definition of private interests, one which
highlights the development of women's agency as both spectacles and
spectators.
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