Private interests
Subtitle: women, portraiture, and the visual culture of the English novel, 1709-1791
By: Alison Conway.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: 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.
Table of contents: title: The novel and the portrait in eighteenth-century England; title: Envisioning literary interest: Manley's The New Atalantis; title: "Ravished sight": picturing Clarissa; title: Refiguring virtue: The history of Miss Betsy Thoughtless and Amelia; title: "Paint her to your own mind": Sterne's concupiscible narratives; title: Portraits of the woman artist: Kauffman, Wollstonecraft, and Inchbald.