Illustrations, optics and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures / edited by Luisa Calè and Patrizia di Bello ; foreword by Hilary Fraser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calè, Luisa

Di Bello, Patrizia

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Visual perception in literature.

Imagery (Psychology) in literature.

Object (Aesthetics) in literature.

Material culture in literature.

Physical Description:

xix, 206 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780230221970

0230221971

OCLC:

465190125

Publisher Number:

99936787414