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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... Panorama 2 ' Shadows of a Magnitude ' : Keats , Fragments , and Vision 3 The Fragment in Ruins 4 Seeing Past Rome : Ruins , History , Museums 5 Romantic Idealism and the Interference of Sight 6 Making Visible : The Diorama , the Double ...
... Panorama . Coloured aquatint from his Plans and Views in Perspective , with Descriptions of Buildings Erected in England and Scotland > ( London , 1801 ) . © The Trustees of the British Museum . Figure Leptis Magna ruins , Virginia ...
... Panorama DOI : 10.4324 / 9780203937822-1 — In his Salon of 1767 , Diderot , under the briefest of titles- " Small , Very Small Ruin ” - embarks upon an extended description of a painting by Hubert Robert . These are just the first ...
... panorama and the diorama , revealed a complex fascination with reality effects and simulated experience that was often aligned with vulgar visual novelty . And yet this is only one side of the coin . As I argue in Chapter 7 , Coleridge ...
... panorama of John Martin's paintings.12 The relationship between painting , literature , and culture is taken up at length in Christopher Rovee's Imagining the Gallery : The Social Body of British Romanticism , where he finds in visual ...
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 | |