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Far-ranging and deeply researched, Painting the Novel is an essential read for eighteenth-century scholars and a must for word and image students. Professor Peter de Voogd, University of Utrecht The debate between realism and the ideal had been an ongoing debate in art criticism long before it entered performance and criticism in narrative fiction.ã Jakub Lipski's excellent book surveys this encounter between painting and prose fiction as it played out in British fiction of the eighteenth century from Defoe to Sterne, from Fielding to Radcliffe, from more or less attempts to capture real life in the presentation of character to ideal figures of beauty such as Sophia Western, from the real world of Smollett's tavern scenes to the idealised illustrations of Burney's Evelina, and finally ã to the mixture of ideally sentimentalisedã characters with the often grotesque landscape of the Gothic.ã If Hogarth and Guido Reni do not quite bookend the discussion, they play important roles.ã Lipski's book appears at a time when descriptive moments in works of fiction-moments outside the flow of narrative-are drawing ever greater critical attention.ã His work makes an important contribution to that discussion. Professor Maximillian E. Novak, University of California

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Jakub Lipski is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz. Before obtaining his PhD in English Literature (University of Warsaw, 2013), he had studied English, Cultural Studies and Art History. He is the author of In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Brill/Rodopi, 2014) and co-editor of The Enchantress of Words, Sounds and Images: Anniversary Essays on Ann Radcliffe (Academica Press, 2015). His research interests include eighteenth-century English literature and culture, as well as the correspondences between word and image.

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