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

• 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.

• "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. 

Ämnesord

Visuell perception i litteraturen  (sao)

Visual perception in literature.  (LCSH)

Imagery (Psychology) in literature.  (LCSH)

Object (Aesthetics) in literature.  (LCSH)

Material culture in literature.  (LCSH)

English literature  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English literature  -- 19th century -- Illustrations. (LCSH)

Books and reading  -- England -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Illustration of books  -- England -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Visual perception in literature  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Geq Litteraturhistoria: amerikansk

Klassifikation

PR468.V59 (LCC)

820.9008 (DDC)

810.9/356 (DDC)

Geq (kssb/8)