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001 2009044889
003 DLC
005 20130423082502.0
008 091023s2010 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009044889
020 $a9780230221970 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPR468.V59$bI66 2010
082 00 $a810.9/356$222
245 00 $aIllustrations, optics, and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures /$cedited by Luisa Cale, Patrizia di Bello.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2010.
300 $axix, 206 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
490 0 $aPalgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"This book explores the encounter between verbal and visual forms through a material aesthetic in which perception is shaped by the tangible qualities of the media. The contributors map a new critical approach in which typography and design play an important role as well as the images represented or evoked in the text"--Provided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: ContentsNotes on contributorsForeword--H.FraserIntroduction--L.Cal &--P. Di BelloPART I: BLINDING VISIONSEkphrasis and Terror: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria--S.ThomasWordsworth's Glasses and Blindness--H.Tilley-- PART II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND THEIR PLEASURESThe Wont of Photography, or, The Pleasure of Mimesis--L.SmithAesthetic Encounters: The Erotic Vision of John Addington Symonds and Wilhelm Von Gloeden--S.EvangelistaPART III: ILLUSTRATIONS AND LATENT IMAGES'Latent Preparedness': Literary Association and Visual Reminiscence in 'Daisy Miller'--G.SmithA Modern Illustrated Magazine: The Yellow Book's Poetics of Format--L.J.KooistraPART IV: PRECIOUS OBJECTSDandyism, Visuality and the 'Camp Gem': Collections of Jewels in Huysmans and Wilde--V.MillsThe Book Beautiful: Reading, Vision, and the Homosexual Imagination in Late Victorian Britain--M.HattIndex.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aVisual perception in literature.
650 0 $aImagery (Psychology) in literature.
650 0 $aObject (Aesthetics) in literature.
650 0 $aMaterial culture in literature.
700 1 $aCalè, Luisa.
700 1 $aDi Bello, Patrizia.