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Textual Vision offers a new and original perspective on Enlightenment visual culture as a contested area of representation, and its discussions of major authors like Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and Jane Austen are both learned and persuasive.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Short titles
Introduction: Image, Ekphrasis, and Verbal Coloring
Chapter One: Bold Design in Alexander Pope
Chapter Two: Promise and Performance in Johnson's Life of Savage Plates Gallery
Chapter Three: Visual Discourse in Hogarth, the Early Novel, and History
Chapter Four: Picturing Jane Austen
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Timothy Erwin is professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Summary

Textual Vision offers a new and original perspective on Enlightenment visual culture as a contested area of representation, and its discussions of major authors like Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and Jane Austen are both learned and persuasive.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Erwin
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781611486650
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-665-0
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies