Download or read book The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange written by Ronald Paulson and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the two traditions comprised not only painterly but literary theory and practice, Paulson explores the innovations of Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Laurence Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith, which followed and complemented the practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followers.