The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period

Joe Bray

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Routledge
09 June 2016

Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in both form and function during the Romantic age, Joe Bray examines how these changes are reflected in the fiction of writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Hamilton and Amelia Opie. Bray considers portraiture in a broad sense as encompassing caricature and the miniature, as well as the classic portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds and others. He argues that the portrait in fiction often functions not as a transparent index to character or as a means of producing a straightforward likeness, but rather as a cue for misreading and a sign of the slipperiness and subjectivity of interpretation. The book is concerned with more than simply the appearance of portraits in Romantic fiction, however. More broadly, The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period investigates how the language of portraiture pervades the novel in this period and how the two art forms exert mutual stylistic influence on each other.

By: Joe Bray
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781409470397
ISBN 10: 1409470393
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 09 June 2016
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: The portrait and the novel 1 The portrait in public 2 Exchanging ‘dear self’: The miniature portrait in the novel of sensibility and the Gothic 3 Visual and verbal caricature 4 Jane Austen: The subjectivity of ‘likeness’ 5 Sir Walter Scott: Reworking the Gothic portrait, Conclusion: ‘The very thing itself’

Joe Bray is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Reviews for The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period

Bray's specific readings ... are exemplary and provide solid ground for further study. His attention to the concepts likeness and character is especially effective. - Marie Lathers, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA in European Romantic Review (2017)