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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... exhibitions, prints, and illustrated 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 ...
... exhibitions, masquerades, fireworks, dances, fêtes champêtres, scientific demonstrations, and much more.5 From portraiture to the visual entertainments of Vauxhall Gardens, looking becomes a more conscious and culturally inflected act ...
... exhibition , after which the museum was renamed the " Egyptian Hall , " staged a lurid and sensational mock - up of tombs , statues , and sarcophagi recently excavated from the Valley of the Kings . The eye of the visitor was gratified ...
... exhibition gallery becomes central to the articulation of this emergent visual, and social, paradigm, and a gage of its impact on the body politic. The full range of exhibitions, displays, and spectacles on view at the end of the ...
... exhibitions in 1793 — a Rotunda in Leicester Square , which stayed open for seventy years . Details of the patent , which set out the basic blueprint for panoramas throughout the nineteenth century - in both general principles 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 | |