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Informationen zum Autor STEFANO EVANGELISTA Fellow, Trinity College and University Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford, UK HILARY FRASER Geoffrey Tillotson Professor in Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UKMICHAEL HATT Professor of History of Art, University of Warwick, UK LORRAINE JANZEN KOOISTRA Professor of English, Ryerson University, Canada VICTORIA MILLS Associate Tutor, Department of Museum Studies, Leicester University, UK GRAHAM SMITH Professor of Art History, University of St Andrews, UK LINDSAY SMITH Professor of English, University of Sussex, UK, and Fouder Director of the Sussex Centre for Visual FieldsSOPHIE THOMAS Associate Professor of English, Ryerson University, Canada HEATHER TILLEY School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Klappentext Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others. Zusammenfassung Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph! the illustrated magazine and the collection! the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading! viewing! and collecting! revealing new readings of Wordsworth! Shelley! James and Wilde! among others. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Foreword; H.Fraser Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Objects and Beholders; L.Calè & P. Di Bello PART I: BLINDING VISIONS Ekphrasis and Terror: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria; S.Thomas Wordsworth's Glasses: the Materiality of Blindness in the Romantic Vision; H.Tilley PART II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND THEIR PLEASURES The Wont of Photography, or the Pleasure of Mimesis; L.Smith Aesthetic Encounters: the Erotic Visions of John Addington Symonds and Wilhelm Von Gloeden; S.Evangelista PART III: ILLUSTRATIONS AND LATENT IMAGES 'Latent Preparedness': Literary Association and Visual Reminiscence in Daisy Miller ; G.Smith A Modern Illustrated Magazine: The Yellow Book Poetics of Format; L.J.Kooistra PART IV: PRECIOUS OBJECTS Dandyism, Visuality and the 'Camp Gem': Collections of Jewels in Huysmans and Wilde; V.Mills The Book Beautiful: Reading, Vision, and the Homosexual Imagination in Late Victorian Britain; M.Hatt Bibliography Index...
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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Foreword; H.Fraser Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Objects and Beholders; L.Calè & P. Di Bello PART I: BLINDING VISIONS Ekphrasis and Terror: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria; S.Thomas Wordsworth's Glasses: the Materiality of Blindness in the Romantic Vision; H.Tilley PART II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND THEIR PLEASURES The Wont of Photography, or the Pleasure of Mimesis; L.Smith Aesthetic Encounters: the Erotic Visions of John Addington Symonds and Wilhelm Von Gloeden; S.Evangelista PART III: ILLUSTRATIONS AND LATENT IMAGES 'Latent Preparedness': Literary Association and Visual Reminiscence in Daisy Miller ; G.Smith A Modern Illustrated Magazine: The Yellow Book Poetics of Format; L.J.Kooistra PART IV: PRECIOUS OBJECTS Dandyism, Visuality and the 'Camp Gem': Collections of Jewels in Huysmans and Wilde; V.Mills The Book Beautiful: Reading, Vision, and the Homosexual Imagination in Late Victorian Britain; M.Hatt Bibliography Index
