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Romanticism and Visuality - Fragments, History, Spectacle (Paperback)
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Romanticism and Visuality - Fragments, History, Spectacle (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism
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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. It examines a broad selection of
instances that reflect debates over how seeing should itself be
viewed: instances, from Daguerre's Diorama, to the staging of
Coleridge's play Remorse, to the figure of the Medusa in Shelley's
poetry and at the Phantasmagoria, in which the very act of seeing
is represented or dramatized. In reconsidering literary engagements
with the expanding visual field, this study argues that the popular
culture of Regency Britain reflected not just emergent and highly
capitalized forms of mass entertainment, but also a lively interest
in the aesthetic and conceptual dimensions of looking. What is
commonly thought to be the Romantic resistance to the visible gives
way to a generative fascination with the visual and its
imaginative--even spectacular--possibilities.
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