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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... poetic I , or between the proprietary eye and the literary eye , shows that these are neither exclusive nor identical , and Labbe investigates the manipulation of these prominent subject positions by writers of both genders . Labbe's ...
... poem . The self - reflexive paradigm out of which visuality is generated in the Romantic period can be extended to include subjects treated by many of the chapters of this study : in the way , for example , that a painting inhabits the ...
... poems , functions to articulate and develop the connection between visuality and fragmentation . I would like to use the ... poem - underwent a decisive modification in the eighteenth century , by which the evidence of direct visual ...
... poems , but his Guide to the Lakes - a text accompanied in its first edition by a series of picturesque landscape engravings by the Reverend Joseph Wilkinson . " 31 The visual criteria that informed the picturesque included various ...
... poems , focusing on the status of the visual in The Fall of Hyperion and its importance for the poem's fragmentariness as well as its purchase on questions of historicity . Fragments occupy an important place in the overall conception ...
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 | |