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Author Thomas, Sophie, 1963-

Title Romanticism and visuality : fragments, history, spectacle / Sophie Thomas
Published New York : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 227 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in romanticism ; 10
Routledge studies in romanticism ; 10.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; 1 Introduction: Regarding Visuality--From the Picturesque to the Panorama; 2 'Shadows of a Magnitude': Keats, Fragments, and Vision; 3 The Fragment in Ruins; 4 Seeing Past Rome: Ruins, History, Museums; 5 Romantic Idealism and the Interference of Sight; 6 Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double, and the Gothic Subject; 7 Seeing Things ("As They Are"): Coleridge, Schiller, and the Play of Semblance; 8 Vision and Revulsion: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the shifting border between the visible and the invisible
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index
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Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Visual perception in literature.
Imagination in literature.
Aesthetics in literature.
Romanticism -- Great Britain
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Aesthetics in literature
Art and literature
English literature
Imagination in literature
Romanticism
Visual perception in literature
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Romantik
Literatur
communication visuelle -- culture -- littérature anglaise -- romantisme -- 19e s. (début)
art -- littérature anglaise -- romantisme -- 19e s. (début)
littérature anglaise -- perception visuelle -- romantisme -- 19e s. (début)
Great Britain
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203937822
0203937821
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