Fuseli's Milton gallery : 'turning readers into spectators' /
This work calls into question the separation of reading and viewing as autonomous aesthetic practices. It analyses exhibitions as important sites of Romantic sociability and an interrelated medium for the literature, debates and controversies of the Revolutionary period.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Clarendon,
2023.
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| Series: | Oxford English monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This work calls into question the separation of reading and viewing as autonomous aesthetic practices. It analyses exhibitions as important sites of Romantic sociability and an interrelated medium for the literature, debates and controversies of the Revolutionary period. |
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| Item Description: | Formerly CIP. A comprehensive account of the circulation and adaptation of literature in late 18th-century art, explores the visual dimension of reading in an emerging visual culture and offers a range of new ways of reading literature and painting together. Previously issued in print: 2006. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 259 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates): illustrations (black and white). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781383040982 1383040982 |