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Illustrations, optics and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures
Title
Illustrations, optics and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures / edited by Luisa Calè and Patrizia di Bello ; foreword by Hilary Fraser.
ISBN
9780230221970 (hardback)
0230221971 (hardback)
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description
xix, 206 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"This book explores the encounter between verbal and visual forms through a material aesthetic in which perception is shaped by the tangible qualities of the media. The contributors map a new critical approach in which typography and design play an important role as well as the images represented or evoked in the text"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 26, 2010
Series
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : nineteenth-century objects and beholders / Luisa Calè and Patrizia Di Bello
Ekphrasis and terror : Shelley, Medusa, and the phantasmagoria / Sophie Thomas
Wordsworth's glasses : the materiality of blindness in the Romantic vision / Heather Tilley
The wont of photography, or the pleasure of mimesis / Lindsay Smith
Aesthetic encounters : the erotic visions of John Addington Symonds and Wilhelm Von Gloeden / Stefano Evangelista
'Latent preparedness' : literary association and visual reminiscence in 'Daisy Miller' / Graham Smith
A modern illustrated magazine : The yellow book's poetics of format / Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Dandyism, visuality and the 'camp gem' : collections of jewels in Huysmans and Wilde / Victoria Mills
The book beautiful : reading, vision, and the homosexual imagination in late Victorian Britain / Michael Hatt.
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