Fictions, Facts and ‘Effects of Reality’: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth Century

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Keywords Art exhibition • Juvenilia • Colonialism • Masculinity in crisis • Geraldine Jewsbury • Convergence • Gissing • George Eliot • Metatheatricality • Mimesis • Heritage • Tableau • Gaze • Business • Picturebooks • Transmedia storytelling • Genre painting • Adaptation • Henry James • Dion Boucicault • Adam Bede • Serial discontinuity • Patriarchy • Mudie’s leisure • Realism • Literary realism • Douglas Jerrold • Filmic adaptation of video games • Charlotte Brontë • Melodrama • Crossover • Mimicry • Preservationism • Familial collaboration • Queen Victoria • Elegy • City of London • Leopold Lewis • Popular theatre • Artistic Gaze • Proto-modernism

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