Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

This Book Explores The Encounter Between Verbal And Visual Forms Through A Material Aesthetic In Which Perception Is Shaped By The Tangible Qualities Of The Media. The Contributors Map A New Critical Approach In Which Typography And Design Play An Important Role As Well As The Images Represented Or Evoked In The Text--provided By Publisher. Introduction : Nineteenth-century Objects And Beholders / Luisa Calè And Patrizia Di Bello -- Ekphrasis And Terror : Shelley, Medusa, And The Phantasmagoria / Sophie Thomas -- Wordsworth's Glasses : The Materiality Of Blindness In The Romantic Vision / Heather Tilley -- The Wont Of Photography, Or The Pleasure Of Mimesis / Lindsay Smith -- Aesthetic Encounters : The Erotic Visions Of John Addington Symonds And Wilhelm Von Gloeden / Stefano Evangelista -- 'latent Preparedness' : Literary Association And Visual Reminiscence In 'daisy Miller' / Graham Smith -- A Modern Illustrated Magazine : The Yellow Book's Poetics Of Format / Lorraine Janzen Kooistra -- Dandyism, Visuality And The 'camp Gem' : Collections Of Jewels In Huysmans And Wilde / Victoria Mills -- The Book Beautiful : Reading, Vision, And The Homosexual Imagination In Late Victorian Britain / Michael Hatt. Edited By Luisa Calè And Patrizia Di Bello ; Foreword By Hilary Fraser. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 185-193) And Index.