Realizations narrative, pictorial, and theatrical arts in nineteenth-century England - Meisel, Martin (Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1983)
A matter of style. -- Part I: coordinates. -- The moment's story: painting. -- Illustration and realization. -- Speaking pictures: the drama. -- Telling scenes: the novel. -- The art of effect. -- Part II: conjunctions. -- Preamble to the picture play. -- From hogarth to cruikshank. -- The politics of domestic drama: David Wilkie. -- The material sublims: John Martin, Byron, and Turner. -- Perils of the deep. -- Napoleon; or, history as spectacle. -- Royal situations. -- Novels in epitome. -- Prisoners base. -- Dickens' roman daughter. -- The paradox of the comedian: thackeray and goethe. -- Pre-raphaelite drama. -- W.P. Frith and the shape of modern life. -- Irving and the artists. -- The last word.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 439-453.
Keywords: Arts, English; Arts, Modern -- 19th century -- England