The static novel : nineteenth-century British fiction and genre painting

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  • 動きのない小説 : 19世紀イギリス小説とジャンル画についての考察
  • ウゴキ ノ ナイ ショウセツ : 19セイキ イギリス ショウセツ ト ジャンルガ ニツイテ ノ コウサツ

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This paper aims to explore nineteenth-century British fiction's preoccupation with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish genre painting, particularly focusing on the impact of genre painting not only on shaping the aesthetics of literary realism but on fueling the debate between the novel of description and the novel of plot. Many nineteenth-century critics, who, basing their arguments on the traditional distinction between descriptive and narrative aspects of fiction, set great store by the tight structure and rapid development of the plot, tended to associate static-descriptive passages with genre painting to attack those who gave priority to description over plot.

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