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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... poetry , is thoroughly interrogated by Labbe for its ( not always so visible ) gender- and class - based ... poet surveys a landscape , and it suggests the enlarged vision and depth of understanding with which education and class ...
... poetry achieves through words , and by which it produces " an illusion for the ' eye of the soul , ' the imagination or ' Einbildungskraft , ' which was tantamount to actual seeing . " This verbal image , moreover , was said to be more ...
... poetry and painting, and in the viewing of the landscape according to criteria drawn from painting and/or poetry. The actual act of seeing is readily metamorphosed, and metaphorised, into an act of imaginative and ideological ...
... poetry , prophecy and religion - all in one . " 39 My argument in this study , however , that vision is a function of construction , that the visible is made , would no doubt complicate Crary's paradigmatic relocation of the image from ...
... poet involved overcoming a superficial dependence on the senses , 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 ...
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 | |