Romanticism And Visuality

Author : Sophie Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135899301

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Romanticism and Visuality by Sophie Thomas Pdf

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.

Author : Diane Piccitto,Terry F. Robinson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472129768

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The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830 by Diane Piccitto,Terry F. Robinson Pdf

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book places the stage front and center in Romantic scholarship by re-envisioning traditional approaches to artistic and social creation in the period. How, it asks, did dramaturgy and stagecraft influence aesthetic and sociopolitical concerns? How does a focus on visuality expand our understanding of the historical experience of theatergoing? In what ways did stage performance converge with visual culture beyond the theater? How did extratheatrical genres engage with theatrical sight and spectacle? Finally, how does a focus on dramatic vision change the way we conceive of Romanticism itself? The volume’s essays by emerging and established scholars provide exciting and suggestive answers to these questions, along with a more capacious conception of Romantic theater as a locus of visual culture that reached well beyond playhouse walls.

Author : J. Labbe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230372931

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Romantic Visualities by J. Labbe Pdf

Romantic Visualities offers a culturally informed understanding of the literary significance of landscape in the Romantic period. Labbe argues that the Romantic period associated the prospect view with the masculine ideal, simultaneously fashioning the detailed point of view as feminised. An interdisciplinary study, it discusses the cultural construction of gender as defined through landscape viewing, and investigates property law, aesthetic tracts, conduct books, travel narratives, artistic theory, and the work of Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, Ann Francis, Dorothy Wordsworth and others.

Author : G. Wood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137068095

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The Shock of the Real by G. Wood Pdf

Already in the century before photography's emergence as a mass medium, a diverse popular visual culture had risen to challenge the British literary establishment. The bourgeois fashion for new visual media - from prints and illustrated books to theatrical spectacles and panoramas - rejected high. Romantic concepts of original genius and the sublime in favor of mass-produced images and the thrill of realistic effects. In response, the literary elite declared the new visual media an offense to Romantic idealism. 'Simulations of nature,' Coleridge declared, are 'loathsome' and 'disgusting.' The Shock of the Real offers a tour of Romantic visual culture, from the West End stage to the tourist-filled Scottish Highlands, from the panoramas of Leicester Square to the photography studios of Second Empire Paris. But in presenting the relation between word and image in the late Georgian age as a form of culture war, the author also proposes an alternative account of Romantic aesthetic ideology - as a reaction not against the rationalism of the Enlightenment but against the visual media age being born.

Author : Joel Faflak,Julia M. Wright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119129615

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A Handbook of Romanticism Studies by Joel Faflak,Julia M. Wright Pdf

The Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the study of Romanticism. Focuses on British Romanticism while also addressing continental and transatlantic Romanticism and earlier periods Utilizes keywords such as imagination, sublime, poetics, philosophy, race, historiography, and visual culture as points of access to the study of Romanticism and the theoretical concerns and the culture of the period Explores topics central to Romanticism studies and the critical trends of the last thirty years

Author : Leena Eilittä,Catherine Riccio-Berry
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781498528009

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Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality by Leena Eilittä,Catherine Riccio-Berry Pdf

Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality addresses the manifold, even global artistic developments that were initiated by European Romantics. In the first section, the contributors show how the rising perspective of intermediality was discussed in philosophical terms and adapted itself to Romantic literature and music. In the second section, the contributors show how post-Romantic writers, visual artists, and composers have engaged with Romantic heritage. By exploring primary works that range from European arts to Latin American literature, these essays focus on the interdisciplinary developments that have emerged in literature, music, painting, film, architecture, and video art. Overall, the contributions in this volume demonstrate that intermedial connections—or sometimes the conscious lack of such connections—embody intriguing aspects of modernity and postmodernity.

Author : Ian Haywood,Susan Matthews,Mary L. Shannon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108425711

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Romanticism and Illustration by Ian Haywood,Susan Matthews,Mary L. Shannon Pdf

Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.

Author : Carmen Casaliggi,Porscha Fermanis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317609346

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Romanticism by Carmen Casaliggi,Porscha Fermanis Pdf

The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature. As a broad global movement, Romanticism strongly impacted on the literature and arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in ways that are still being debated and negotiated today. Examining the poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, and the arts of the period, this book considers: Important propositions and landmark ideas in the Romantic period; Key debates and critical approaches to Romantic studies; New and revisionary approaches to Romantic literature and art; The ways in which Romantic writing interacts with broader trends in history, politics, and aesthetics; European and Global Romanticism; The legacies of Romanticism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Containing useful, reader-friendly features such as explanatory case studies, chapter summaries, and suggestions for further reading, this clear and engaging book is an invaluable resource for anyone who intends to study and research the complexity and diversity of the Romantic period, as well as the historical conditions which produced it.

Author : D. Higgins,S. Ruston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230276482

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Teaching Romanticism by D. Higgins,S. Ruston Pdf

Romanticism is taught at universities across the globe and is considered integral to the study of British and European literature. This book, written by leading academics, presents innovative, practical approaches to teaching traditional and newer aspects of the curriculum and is essential to anyone teaching Romanticism at university level.

Author : Paul Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191064975

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The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism by Paul Hamilton Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism focuses on the period beginning with the French Revolution and extending to the uprisings of 1848 across Europe. It brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The volume begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Greek, and Polish amongst others. Then follows a second section based on the naturally inter-disciplinary quality of Romanticism, encapsulated by the different discourses with which writers of the time, set up an internal comparative dynamic. These chapters highlight the sense a discourse gives of being written knowledgeably against other pretenders to completeness or comprehensiveness of understanding, and the Enlightenment encyclopaedic project. Discourses typically push their individual claims to resume European culture, collaborating and trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featuring here are history, geography, drama, theology, language, geography, philosophy, political theory, the sciences, and the media. Each chapter offers original and individual interpretation of individual aspects of an inherently comparative world of individual writers and the discursive idioms to which they are historically subject. Together the forty-one chapters provide a comprehensive and unique overview of European Romanticism.

Author : Kate Singer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438475295

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Romantic Vacancy by Kate Singer Pdf

Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature. Romantic Vacancy argues that, at the cult of sensibility’s height, Romantic writers found alternative tropes of affect to express movement beyond sensation and the body. Grappling with sensibility’s claims that sensation could be translated into ideas and emotions, poets of vacancy rewrote core empiricist philosophies that trapped women and men in sensitive bodies and, more detrimentally, in ideological narratives about emotional response that gendered subjects’ bodies and minds. Kate Singer contends that affect’s genesis occurs instead through a series of figurative responses and movements that loop together human and nonhuman movements of mind, body, and nature into a posthuman affect. This book discovers a new form of Romantic affect that is dynamically linguistic and material. It seeks to end the long tradition of holding women and men writers of the Romantic period as separate and largely unequal. It places women writers at the forefront of speculative thinking, repositions questions of gender at the vanguard of Romantic-era thought, revises how we have long thought of gender in the period, and rewrites our notions of Romantic affect. Finally, it answers pivotal questions facing both affect studies and Romanticism about interrelations among language, affect, and materiality. Readers will learn more about the deep history of how poetic language can help us move beyond binary gender and its limiting intellectual and affective ideologies. Kate Singer is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Critical Social Thought Program at Mount Holyoke University.

Author : Karl Kroeber,William Walling
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : 0300022093

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Images of Romanticism by Karl Kroeber,William Walling Pdf

Author : D. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137298928

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Sexuality and the Gothic Magic Lantern by D. Jones Pdf

This fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of Gothic fiction.

Author : G. Wood
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312226543

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The Shock of the Real by G. Wood Pdf

Already in the century before photography's emergence as a mass medium, a diverse popular visual culture had risen to challenge the British literary establishment. The bourgeois fashion for new visual media - from prints and illustrated books to theatrical spectacles and panoramas - rejected high. Romantic concepts of original genius and the sublime in favor of mass-produced images and the thrill of realistic effects. In response, the literary elite declared the new visual media an offense to Romantic idealism. 'Simulations of nature,' Coleridge declared, are 'loathsome' and 'disgusting.' The Shock of the Real offers a tour of Romantic visual culture, from the West End stage to the tourist-filled Scottish Highlands, from the panoramas of Leicester Square to the photography studios of Second Empire Paris. But in presenting the relation between word and image in the late Georgian age as a form of culture war, the author also proposes an alternative account of Romantic aesthetic ideology - as a reaction not against the rationalism of the Enlightenment but against the visual media age being born.

Author : Nancy Moore Goslee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107008380

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Shelley's Visual Imagination by Nancy Moore Goslee Pdf

First full-length study of Shelley's remarkable notebooks and the visual and textual imagination they reveal.