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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... fragmentary Hyperion poems , functions to articulate and develop the connection between visuality and fragmentation . I would like to use the balance of this introductory chapter , however , to elaborate two different “ visualizations ...
... fragmentary forms , and regarded the derelict and the ruined as a source of " natural " beauty . Gilpin argued that the ideally picturesque landscape included varied and contrasting terrain and partial concealments of the view . Nothing ...
... fragmentary can be advanced along these lines . 116 In Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgement ( 1790 ) , which explored the sublime with rather more philosophical rigour , the sublime involves the overwhelming of the imagination such ...
... fragmentary forms. At home, antiquarianism popularized an interest in the historical features of the English landscape, which extended from the superficial remnants of early settlements, to their domestic, religious, and cultural ...
... fragmentary texts increasingly published and read on their own terms, but sometimes, as in Thomas Chatterton's Rowley poems of 1777, which claimed to be the recovered work of a fifteenth-century monk found secreted away in a rural ...
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 | |