Victorian photography, painting and poetry : the enigma of visibility in Ruskin, Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites
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Victorian photography, painting and poetry : the enigma of visibility in Ruskin, Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites
(Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 6)(Paperback re-issue)
Cambridge University Press, 2008, c1995
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"This digitaly printed version 2008"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 229-239
Includes and index
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Description
This book explores the intersections between Victorian literature, painting and photography. Taking as a starting point mid-nineteenth-century developments in the understanding of visual perception, Lindsay Smith examines the representation of a pervasive desire for a literal understanding of the process of seeing and perceiving. This is played out in the aesthetic theory of John Ruskin, the early poetry of William Morris, paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, and in the photographic technique of combination printing. She demonstrates how the novel presence of the camera in nineteenth-century culture not only transforms acts of looking, but also affects major social, aesthetic and philosophical categories. By exploring the intricacies of photographic discourse she shows how Ruskin and Morris produce a critique of the earlier Cartesian perspectival model of vision.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Ruskin, Morris and the (un)assertive eyes
- 2. 'Gaps on the mind's shelves': Ruskin's theory of the grotesque
- 3. 'The seed of the flower': photography and Pre-Raphaelitism
- 4. 'Where he cannot see, he will not venture far': the critical reception of The Defence of Guenevere
- 5. The optical agency of 'Rapunzel'
- 6. The politics of sight: The Defence of Guenevere and the optical determinants of medieval topography
- 7. Coda: through yellow lenses
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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