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Fuseli's Milton gallery : 'turning readers into spectators' / Luisa Calè.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calè, Luisa, author.
- Series:
- Oxford English monographs.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford English monographs
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost--Illustrations.
- Milton, John.
- Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825--Criticism and interpretation.
- Fuseli, Henry.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Art and literature--England--History--18th century.
- Art and literature.
- English literature--Illustrations.
- Illustration of books--England--18th century.
- Illustration of books.
- Popular culture--England--History--18th century.
- Popular culture.
- Books and reading--England--History--18th century.
- Books and reading.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- The literary galleries and the field of art
- The spectator turned reader : printed text at the galleries
- The reader turned spectator : visual narratives
- 'Satan encount'ring death, sin interposing' : Milton' s allegory and the politics of seeing
- The plot of Adam and Eve.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-247) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-04098-2
- 1-280-75503-2
- 0-19-151486-1
- OCLC:
- 476241788
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