Glancing Visions - Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-century American Literature

How the "glance" rather than the "gaze" in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to modernism

About the author

Zachary Tavlin is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His peer-reviewed scholarship has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, ESQ, J19, English, Continental Philosophy Review, and Wallace Stevens Journal, among other places.

Summary

Examines how the ‘glance’ rather than the ‘gaze’ in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to modernism. Glancing Visions will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature and literary history, visual culture, visual theory, aesthetic philosophy, and phenomenology.

Product details

• Authors: Zachary Tavlin
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9780817321567
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2156-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies