Illustrations, optics, and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures

Publication Data

• Title Illustrations, optics, and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures
• Contributors Luisa Calè, Patrizia Di Bello
• Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Basingstoke
• Language English

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ContentsNotes on contributorsForeword
H.FraserIntroduction
L.Cal &
P. Di BelloPART I: BLINDING VISIONSEkphrasis and Terror: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria
S.ThomasWordsworth's Glasses and Blindness
H.TilleyPART II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND THEIR PLEASURESThe Wont of Photography, or, The Pleasure of Mimesis
L.SmithAesthetic Encounters: The Erotic Vision of John Addington Symonds and Wilhelm Von Gloeden
S.EvangelistaPART III: ILLUSTRATIONS AND LATENT IMAGES'Latent Preparedness': Literary Association and Visual Reminiscence in 'Daisy Miller'
G.SmithA Modern Illustrated Magazine: The Yellow Book's Poetics of Format
L.J.KooistraPART IV: PRECIOUS OBJECTSDandyism, Visuality and the 'Camp Gem': Collections of Jewels in Huysmans and Wilde
V.MillsThe Book Beautiful: Reading, Vision, and the Homosexual Imagination in Late Victorian Britain
M.HattIndex.

Topics

• English literature :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• Visual perception in literature
• Imagery (Psychology) in literature
• Object (Aesthetics) in literature
• Material culture in literature

Illustrations, optics, and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures. ISBN 9780230221970. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.