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Zusatztext "Exploring the inter-relationship between literature and visual culture in the Romantic period, Thomas (humanities, U. of Sussex) looks at how seeing itself was viewed, both by people involved in creating visual spectacle and those who responded by writing in literature about the status of the visual. Her topics include the fragment in ruins, Romantic idealism and the interference of sight, and vision and revulsion in Shelley. Some of the chapters have been published as independent essays." -- Book News Inc., August 2008 Informationen zum Autor Sophie Thomas is Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex and taught previously at the University of Toronto. She is the author of articles on English Romanticism and visual culture and is working on a new book about fragments. Klappentext This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the shifting border between the visible and the invisible. Zusammenfassung This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the shifting border between the visible and the invisible. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments List of Illustrations (Introduction) Regarding Visuality: From the Picturesque to the Panorama ‘Shadows of a Magnitude’: Keats, Fragments, and Vision The Fragment in Ruins Seeing Past Rome: Ruins, History, Museums Romantic Idealism and the Interference of Sight Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double, and the Gothic Subject Seeing Things ("as they are"): Coleridge, Schiller, and the Play of Semblance Vision and Revulsion: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria Notes Bibliography Index ...
