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Victorian photography, painting, and poetry : the enigma of visibility in Ruskin, Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites

Title
Victorian photography, painting, and poetry : the enigma of visibility in Ruskin, Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites / Lindsay Smith.
Author
Smith, Lindsay.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Description
xiv, 245 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
This book explores the intersections between Victorian literature, painting, and photography. Taking as a starting-point mid-nineteenth-century developments in the understanding of visual perception, Lindsay Smith examines the representation of a pervasive desire for a literal understanding of the process of seeing and perceiving. This is played out in the aesthetic theory of John Ruskin, the early poetry of William Morris, paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, and in the photographic technique of combination printing. She demonstrates how the novel presence of the camera in nineteenth-century culture not only transforms acts of looking, but also affects major social, aesthetic and philosophical categories. By exploring the intricacies of photographic discourse she shows how Ruskin and Morris produce a critique of the earlier Cartesian perspectival model of vision.
Series Statement
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 6
Uniform Title
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 6.
Subject
  • Morris, William 1834-1896
  • Ruskin, John 1819-1900
  • Englisch, ..
  • Morris, William, (1834-1896) > Esthétique
  • Ruskin, John, (1819-1900) > Esthétique
  • Morris, William (Künstler, 1834-1896)
  • Ruskin, John
  • Geschichte 1850-1900
  • Geschichte 1840-1850
  • Arts, Victorian > Great Britain
  • Arts, British
  • Visual perception
  • Visual Perception
  • visual perception
  • Arts, Victorian
  • Druckwerk
  • Literatur
  • Lyrik
  • Malerei
  • Fotografie
  • Poetik
  • Präraffaeliten
  • Schilderkunst
  • Letterkunde
  • Fotografie
  • Victoriaanse tijd
  • Visuele waarneming
  • Arts, English
  • Poésie anglaise > 19e siècle
  • Art > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle
  • Arts victoriens > Grande-Bretagne
  • Perception visuelle
  • Art victorien
  • Peinture victorienne
  • Littérature et photographie
  • Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
  • Perception visuelle dans la littérature
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
  • Englisch
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-239).
Contents
1. Ruskin, Morris, and the (un)assertive eyes -- 2. 'Gaps on the mind's shelves': Ruskin's theory of the grotesque -- 3. 'The seed of the flower': photography and Pre-Raphaelitism -- 4. 'Where he cannot see, he will not venture far': the critical reception of The Defence of Guenevere -- 5. The optical agency of 'Rapunzel' -- 6. The politics of sight: The Defence of Guenevere and the optical determinants of medieval topography -- 7. Coda: through yellow lenses.
ISBN
  • 0521472881
  • 9780521472883
  • 9780521054683
  • 0521054680
LCCN
94035999
OCLC
  • ocm31413097
  • 31413097
  • SCSB-2066787
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library