Art of the everyday
Subtitle: Dutch painting and the realist novel
By: Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780691127262
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Art and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century; Realism in literature; Painting, Dutch -- 17th century -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-241) and index
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The novel as Dutch painting; title: Low genre and high theory; title: Balzac's bourgeois interiors and the quest for the absolute; title: George Eliot's defense of Dutch painting; title: Hardy's rural painting of the Dutch school; title: Proust's genre painting and the rediscovery of Vermeer; title: Notes