The Resource Art of the everyday : Dutch painting and the realist novel, Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Art of the everyday : Dutch painting and the realist novel, Ruth Bernard Yeazell
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- Summary
- "Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the everyday - pictures that served as a compelling model for the novelists who followed. By the mid-1800s, seventeenth-century Dutch painting figured virtually everywhere in the British and French fiction we esteem today as the vanguard of realism. Why were such writers drawn to this art of two centuries before? What does this tell us about the nature of realism?" "In this book, Ruth Yeazell explores the nineteenth century's fascination with Dutch painting, as well as its doubts about an art that had long challenged traditional values." "After showing how persistent tensions between high theory and low genre shaped criticism of novels and pictures alike, Art of the Everyday turns to four major novelists - Honore de Balzac, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Marcel Proust - who strongly identified their work with Dutch painting. For all these writers, Dutch art provided a model for training themselves to look closely at the particulars of middle-class life." "Yet even as nineteenth-century novelists strove to create illusions of the real by modeling their narratives on Dutch pictures, Yeazell argues, they chafed at the model. A concluding chapter on Proust explains why the nineteenth century associated such realism with the past and shows how the rediscovery of Vermeer helped resolve the longstanding conflict between humble details and the aspirations of high art."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xx, 252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- The novel as Dutch painting -- Low genre and high theory -- Balzac's bourgeois interiors and the quest for the absolute -- George Eliot's defense of Dutch painting -- Hardy's rural painting of the Dutch school -- Proust's genre painting and the rediscovery of Vermeer
- Preface -- The novel as Dutch painting -- Low genre and high theory -- Balzac's bourgeois interiors and the quest for the absolute -- George Eliot's defense of Dutch painting -- Hardy's rural painting of the Dutch school -- Proust's genre painting and the rediscovery of Vermeer -- Notes
- Isbn
- 9780691127262
- Label
- Art of the everyday : Dutch painting and the realist novel
- Title
- Art of the everyday
- Title remainder
- Dutch painting and the realist novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Ruth Bernard Yeazell
- Subject
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- Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Art and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Painting, Dutch -- 17th century -- Influence
- Realism in literature
- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the everyday - pictures that served as a compelling model for the novelists who followed. By the mid-1800s, seventeenth-century Dutch painting figured virtually everywhere in the British and French fiction we esteem today as the vanguard of realism. Why were such writers drawn to this art of two centuries before? What does this tell us about the nature of realism?" "In this book, Ruth Yeazell explores the nineteenth century's fascination with Dutch painting, as well as its doubts about an art that had long challenged traditional values." "After showing how persistent tensions between high theory and low genre shaped criticism of novels and pictures alike, Art of the Everyday turns to four major novelists - Honore de Balzac, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Marcel Proust - who strongly identified their work with Dutch painting. For all these writers, Dutch art provided a model for training themselves to look closely at the particulars of middle-class life." "Yet even as nineteenth-century novelists strove to create illusions of the real by modeling their narratives on Dutch pictures, Yeazell argues, they chafed at the model. A concluding chapter on Proust explains why the nineteenth century associated such realism with the past and shows how the rediscovery of Vermeer helped resolve the longstanding conflict between humble details and the aspirations of high art."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Yeazell, Ruth Bernard
- Dewey number
- 823/.809357
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR878.A74
- LC item number
- Y43 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English fiction
- Art and literature
- French fiction
- Art and literature
- Realism in literature
- Painting, Dutch
- Label
- Art of the everyday : Dutch painting and the realist novel, Ruth Bernard Yeazell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-241) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- The novel as Dutch painting -- Low genre and high theory -- Balzac's bourgeois interiors and the quest for the absolute -- George Eliot's defense of Dutch painting -- Hardy's rural painting of the Dutch school -- Proust's genre painting and the rediscovery of Vermeer
- Preface -- The novel as Dutch painting -- Low genre and high theory -- Balzac's bourgeois interiors and the quest for the absolute -- George Eliot's defense of Dutch painting -- Hardy's rural painting of the Dutch school -- Proust's genre painting and the rediscovery of Vermeer -- Notes
- Control code
- 124031810
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xx, 252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780691127262
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2007017263
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)124031810
- Label
- Art of the everyday : Dutch painting and the realist novel, Ruth Bernard Yeazell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-241) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The novel as Dutch painting -- Low genre and high theory -- Balzac's bourgeois interiors and the quest for the absolute -- George Eliot's defense of Dutch painting -- Hardy's rural painting of the Dutch school -- Proust's genre painting and the rediscovery of Vermeer
- Preface -- The novel as Dutch painting -- Low genre and high theory -- Balzac's bourgeois interiors and the quest for the absolute -- George Eliot's defense of Dutch painting -- Hardy's rural painting of the Dutch school -- Proust's genre painting and the rediscovery of Vermeer -- Notes
- Control code
- 124031810
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xx, 252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780691127262
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2007017263
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)124031810
Subject
- Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Art and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Painting, Dutch -- 17th century -- Influence
- Realism in literature
- History
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