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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... Things ( " As They Are " ) : Coleridge , Schiller , and the play of Semblance 8 Vision and Revulsion : Shelley , Medusa , and the Phantasmagoria Notes Bibliography Index Preface and Acknowledgments This study addresses the ...
... Things ('as they are'): Coleridge, Schiller, and the Play of Semblance” first appeared in Studies in Romanticism, 43:4 (2004), and I would like to thank the Trustees of Boston University for permission to revise and reprint it. Finally ...
... things visible. The prominence of figurative and metaphoric uses of sight in literary texts of the period argues, moreover, for an interest in acts of seeing that intersected, often producing conflicting effects, with a correspondent ...
... thing that has undergone repression , " mandates its return , a return that can only destabilize the mind's apparent mastery of the real . The visible is not merely absent from ( or , an absence in ) the aesthetic ideology of high ...
... things that Romantic engagements with the visual interrogate , and indeed this period may be seen as a transitional moment in which visibility as a construct achieves both cultural prominence and ideological force . The attempt to think ...
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 | |