| Description |
xvii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Routledge studies in romanticism ; 10 |
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Routledge studies in romanticism ; 10
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| Contents |
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 |
| 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 and index |
| Subject |
Vision in literature.
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Visual perception in literature.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Aesthetics in literature.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
2007020344 |
| ISBN |
9780415961189 hardback |
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0415961181 hardback |
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