Romanticism and Visuality: Fragments, History, SpectacleRoutledge, 2007 M12 12 - 246 pages This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the shifting border between the visible and the invisible. It examines a broad selection of instances that reflect debates over how seeing should itself be viewed: instances, from Daguerre's Diorama, to the staging of Coleridge's play Remorse, to the figure of the Medusa in Shelley's poetry and at the Phantasmagoria, in which the very act of seeing is represented or dramatized. In reconsidering literary engagements with the expanding visual field, this study argues that the popular culture of Regency Britain reflected not just emergent and highly capitalized forms of mass entertainment, but also a lively interest in the aesthetic and conceptual dimensions of looking. What is commonly thought to be the Romantic resistance to the visible gives way to a generative fascination with the visual and its imaginative--even spectacular--possibilities. |
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... books, and even in connection with tourism associated with the rage for picturesque scenery. Moreover, the thriving popular culture of Regency Britain, with its phantasmagorias, panoramas, and dioramas, was driven not simply by the ...
... book are necessarily selective and address a range of discrete topics, they all contribute to a network of interrelated themes: representation, memory, fragmentation, time, and historicity. These themes are related to acts of “making ...
... book is not concerned with optics, or with the science of vision as such.3 Rather, it investigates a variety of instances in literature and visual culture where “seeing” becomes a preoccupation that is simultaneously material and ...
... Book Eleven of ThePrelude ( 1805 version ) , titled “ Imagination , how Impaired and Restored , " Wordsworth claims that his maturation as a poet involved overcoming a superficial dependence on the senses , particularly sight , and ...
Contents
The Fragment in Ruins | |
Ruins History Museums | |
Romantic Idealism and the Interference of Sight | |
The Diorama the Double and the Gothic Subject | |
Coleridge Schiller and the play of Semblance | |
Shelley Medusa and the Phantasmagoria | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |