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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... Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine Biography, Celebrity, Politics David Higgins 7. Romantic Representations of British India Edited by Michael Franklin 8. Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era Systems, State Finance, and the ...
... Romantic Idealism and the Interference of Sight 6 Making Visible : The Diorama , the Double , and the Gothic Subject 7 Seeing Things ( " As They Are " ) : Coleridge , Schiller , and the play of Semblance 8 Vision and Revulsion : Shelley ...
... Romantic period, and it investigates how seeing was itself viewed, both by those involved in creating visual spectacle and by those who responded by writing about the status of the visual in literary texts. It interrogates a number of ...
... Romantic resistance to the visible reveals a generative fascination with the visual and its conceptual as well as sensory —even spectacular—possibilities. While the individual chapters of this book are necessarily selective and address ...
... Romantic period, this preoccupation takes on apparently distinct forms: in a thriving visual culture that trades on (and trumps) prevailing aesthetic models, and in a literary culture that, at first sight, denigrates the visual. The ...
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 | |