| "Writing Illustrated" provides a background for Victorian representational practices through the new rhetoric of the eighteenth-century Scottish belles lettres movement, which drew upon principles such as perspicuity and vraisemblance when conceiving how writers ought to depict characters and emotions. The project explores the extent to which practices of illustration played a critical role in producing both confidence in and distrust of the nineteenth-century novel's moral efficacy and explores the peculiar urgency of the issue in representational dilemmas associated with class mobility. |
