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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... particularly to thank Lucy Newlyn, Paul Hamilton, Alan Bewell, Rebecca Comay, Anne Janowitz, Nicholas Roe, Mary Jacobus, Andrew Bennett, and Luisa Calè. The best parts of this work owe much to the interdisciplinary research culture at ...
... particularly of women : the space enclosed by the landscape that can be surveyed ( only ) in its details , and from within . The contrast between physical location and the imaginative placement of the poetic I , or between the ...
... particularly evident in how it became itself the focus of numerous visual representations: in the often satiric prints of the crowded summer exhibitions at the Royal Academy, in prints of the printshop window and those crowding around ...
... particularly in scenic areas of Britain such as the Lake District , the Scottish Highlands , North Wales , and the Wye Valley . Domestic tourism was encouraged also by the newly popular guidebooks , such as Thomas West's A Guide to the ...
... particularly sight , and makes explicit his struggles with the picturesque . Although he states that he never fell fully under the sway of that " strong infection of the age , " he reproaches himself with attending too much to 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 | |