Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

• Calè, Luisa.
• Di Bello, Patrizia.

Description

xix, 206 p., [20] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

Subjects

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFD 10-558

ISBN

• 9780230221970 (hardback)
• 0230221971 (hardback)

LCCN

2009044889

OCLC

YBP 2009044889

Title

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

Imprint

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

Series

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Calè, Luisa.

Di Bello, Patrizia.

Research Call Number

JFD 10-558