Archaeologies of Visual Culture - Gazes, Optical Devices and Images from 17th to 20th Century Literature

This book analyzes the interplay of gazes, optical devices and images in literature. Following the developments of Visual Culture studies, literary theory has expanded its original field of investigation and addresses, beyond the traditional relationship between the verbal and the visual, the influence that gazes, optical devices and images can have on literary texts. This research tries to define the literary lives of the scopic regimes of modernity: the gazes of English early modern women's writing, the optical devices in German literature between Classicism and Romanticism, and the images of the mineral world in modern French aesthetics.

About the author

Prof Dr Valeria Cammarata teaches Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies at the University of Palermo.

Product details

• Authors: Valeri Cammarata, Valeria Cammarata, Robe Coglitore, Roberta Coglitore, Cometa, Michel Cometa, Michele Cometa
• Publisher: V&R unipress
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2016
• EAN: 9783847102205
• ISBN: 978-3-8471-0220-5
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 237 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 538 g
• Illustrations: mit 38 Abbildungen
• Series: Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities; Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities / ACUME 2; Interfacing Science, Literature and the Humanities 011; Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities; Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities / ACUME 2; Interfacing Science, Literature and the Humanities 011
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)