Illustrations, optics and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures /

"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 represent...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Calè, Luisa, Di Bello, Patrizia
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:	Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Visual perception in literature. Imagery (Psychology) in literature. Object (Aesthetics) in literature. Material culture in literature.

Table of 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.