23. From Visual to Material Culture: The Afterlives of Frontispieces to Robinson Crusoe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts 1
6. Part I: Styles and Discourses
7. 1. Invisibility and Narration in Haywood (and Behn and Fielding) 23
8. 2. Orientalism and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century Novel 38
9. 3. Crafting the Past: Antiquarianism, Decorative Handicrafts and the Novel at the Mid-Century 53
10. 4. Anatomy, Invasion and Imagination: Reading Gender, Medicine and the Body in the Mid-Century Novel 67
11. Part II: Visual Cultures
12. 5. Before and After: Imagining Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century British Art and Literature, from Defoe and Hogarth to Sterne and Gainsborough 89
13. 6. The Art of Architecture and the Form of the Novel 108
14. 7. ‘The statue cannot be formed, unless our inclination concur thereto’: Statuary and Sculpture in the Eighteenth-Century Novel 123
15. 8. Depicting Beautiful Women in the Eighteenth-Century Novel 140
16. 9. Stories behind Pictures: Reconstructing a Pre-History of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto 155
17. 10. The Romances of Ann Radcliffe and the ‘Total Work of Art’ 176
18. Part III: Modes and Spaces of Performance
19. 11. Haywood’s Whimsical Adventures: The Novel and the Rococo 195
20. 12. Song in the Novels of Samuel Richardson 211
21. 13. Vexed Diversions: Gulliver’s Travels, the Arts and Popular Entertainment 228
22. 14. Songs, Stories and Sentimentalism: The British Broadside Ballad as Sentimental Fiction 244
23. 15. ‘Novel Romance makes me puke!’: Burneys, Shakespeares and the Sentimental Plot 262
24. 16. Polite Arts/The Arts of Politeness: Manners, Hypocrisy and the Performance of the Self 277
25. 17. Musical ‘Epiphanies’ in the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel 293
26. 18. Jane Austen’s Art of Elocution: Discerning Feeling in Persuasion 307
27. Part IV: Networks and Interactions
28. 19. Multimedia Coterie Romance 329
29. 20. The Art of Reading and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: The Case of The History of Charlotte Summers, The Fortunate Parish Girl 348
30. 21. The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Sociable Arts 362
31. 22. Novels, Paintings and the Half-Trained Eye in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Reading Culture 376
32. Part V: Adaptations and Afterlives
33. 23. From Visual to Material Culture: The Afterlives of Frontispieces to Robinson Crusoe 397
34. 24. Text Transformed into Silkwork: British Needlework Pictures and the Adaptation of Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter 414
35. 25. Extra-Illustration and the Seduction of a ‘Standard’ Text: James Comerford’s Erotic Books 433
36. 26. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Art of Graphic Satire, from Character to Constellation 460
37. 27. Contemporary Art and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 485
38. 28. Invoking the Implied Viewer in the Eighteenth-Century Novel on Film 503
39. Notes on Contributors 518
40. Index 524
41. Plates 547