Illustrations, optics and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures
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Illustrations, optics and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures
（Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Bibliography: p. 185-193
Includes index
Summary: "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 represented or evoked in the text"--Provided by publisher
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Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Foreword
- H.Fraser Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Objects and Beholders
- L.Cale & P. Di Bello PART I: BLINDING VISIONS Ekphrasis and Terror: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria
- S.Thomas Wordsworth's Glasses: the Materiality of Blindness in the Romantic Vision
- H.Tilley PART II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND THEIR PLEASURES The Wont of Photography, or the Pleasure of Mimesis
- L.Smith Aesthetic Encounters: the Erotic Visions of John Addington Symonds and Wilhelm Von Gloeden
- S.Evangelista PART III: ILLUSTRATIONS AND LATENT IMAGES 'Latent Preparedness': Literary Association and Visual Reminiscence in Daisy Miller
- G.Smith A Modern Illustrated Magazine: The Yellow Book Poetics of Format
- L.J.Kooistra PART IV: PRECIOUS OBJECTS Dandyism, Visuality and the 'Camp Gem': Collections of Jewels in Huysmans and Wilde
- V.Mills The Book Beautiful: Reading, Vision, and the Homosexual Imagination in Late Victorian Britain
- M.Hatt Bibliography Index
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