Illustrations, optics, and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures / edited by Luisa Cale, Patrizia di Bello.

Other author Calè, Luisa.
Other author Di Bello, Patrizia.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Descriptionxix, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPalgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. ^A563136
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009044889
ISBN9780230221970 (hardback)
ISBN0230221971 (hardback)

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