Romanticism and visuality : fragments, history, spectacle
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780415961189, 9780203937822, 0415961181, 0203937821
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Introduction) : Regarding Visuality-From the Picturesque to the Panorama
'Shadows of a Magnitude' : Keats, Fragments, and Vision
The Fragment in Ruins
Seeing Past Rome : Ruins, History, Museums
Romantic Idealism and the Interference of Sight
Making Visible : The Diorama, the Double, and the Gothic Subject
Seeing Things ("as they are") : Coleridge, Schiller, and the Play of Semblance
Vision and Revulsion : Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria