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

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 ofreading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Notes on Contributors - Foreword; H.Fraser- Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Objects and Beholders; L.Calè ; 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 - AModern 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-22197-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés