Art of the everyday : Dutch painting and the realist novel / Ruth Bernard Yeazell.

Author/creator Yeazell, Ruth Bernard
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxx, 252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
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.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-241) and index.
LCCN 2007017263
ISBN9780691127262 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0691127263 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR 878.A74 Y43 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold