3. the picturesque would be spoilt: Wehlim refers jokingly to the contemporary cult of the picturesque, a fashion in both plot appreciation and novel design which emphasized a literary aesthetic – ‘natural’, asymmetrical story lines rather than classical symmetry – and which took particular pleasure in, for example, ivy-clad books. It is particularly associated with […]
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