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

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 206 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. Contents List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword; H. Fraser -- Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Objects and Beholders; L. Cal̈ & P. Di Bello -- PART I: BLINDING VISIONS -- Ekphrasis and Terror: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria; S. Thomas -- Wordsworth's Glasses: the Materiality of Blindness in the Romantic Vision; H. Tilley -- PART II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND THEIR PLEASURES -- The Wont of Photography, or the Pleasure of Mimesis; L. Smith -- Aesthetic Encounters: the Erotic Visions of John Addington Symonds and Wilhelm Von Gloeden; S. Evangelista -- PART III: ILLUSTRATIONS AND LATENT IMAGES -- 'Latent Preparedness': Literary Association and Visual Reminiscence in Daisy Miller; G. Smith -- A Modern Illustrated Magazine: The Yellow Book Poetics of Format; L.J. Kooistra -- PART IV: PRECIOUS OBJECTS -- Dandyism, Visuality and the 'Camp Gem': Collections of Jewels in Huysmans and Wilde; V. Mills -- The Book Beautiful: Reading, Vision, and the Homosexual Imagination in Late Victorian Britain; M. Hatt -- Bibliography -- Index 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 Summary Through a close encounter with material objects and cultural experiences this book transforms the way we read the literary and the visual in the nineteenth century. The photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection became centres of multisensorial perception through looking, reading, handling, sharing and writing. Attention to these embodied practices helps flesh out forms of perception and circulation which deferred and transformed desire and pleasure across media. Capturing the historically specific modes in which such objects were produced, encountered, and conceptualised, the essays in this collection argue against the separation of the senses and rethink the manner in which visuality touches the beholder both literally and metaphorically. Through early and late nineteenth-century episodes in the cultures of viewing, reading, and collecting this book makes new and sometimes surprising connections between Romanticism and the fin de sïcle. Through its exploration of a material aesthetic this book offers fresh and original readings of works by William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde, among others "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 Includes bibliographical references and index Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Visual perception in literature. Imagery (Psychology) in literature. Object (Aesthetics) in literature. Material culture in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. English literature Imagery (Psychology) in literature Material culture in literature Object (Aesthetics) in literature Visual perception in literature Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle. Perception visuelle -- Dans la littérature. Imagerie (psychologie) -- Dans la littérature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Calè, Luisa Di Bello, Patrizia ISBN 9780230297395 0230297390 9780230221970 0230221971

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