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Book SynopsisMarshall asks what it means for these authors to view the world through the frame of art.
Trade ReviewThis is a beautifully written and beautifully argued book... I come away from it with a new perception. -- Cynthia Wall Studies in English Literature 2006 Marshall demonstrates an enviable facility with the English, French, and German canon, and at points produces close readings of difficult texts that are nothing short of tour de force. -- Richard Kroll Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2007 The Frame of Art has already received a major accolade: the Louis Gottschalk Prize awarded by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. It is not hard to see why. -- Richard Kroll Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2007 This book succeeds so brilliantly in its interpretative perspectives. -- Stefan H. Uhlig Modern Philology 2008 Thought-provoking and scrupulously researched. -- Denise Gigante Eighteenth-Century Studies 2007
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Problem of Aesthetic Experience
Chapter 1. The Problem of the Picturesque
Chapter 2. The Impossible Work of Art: Kames, Pope, Lessing
Chapter 3. True Acting and the Language of Real Feeling: Mansfield Park
Chapter 4. Fatal Letters: Clarissa and the Death of Julie
Chapter 5. The Business of Tragedy: Accounting for Sentiment in Julia de Roubigné
Chapter 6. Writing Masters and "Masculine Exercises" in The Female Quixote
Chapter 7. Arguing by Analogy: Hume's Standard of Taste
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
