Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel

by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691143234
• ISBN13: 9780691143231
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"