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Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures

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  1. Luisa Calè

    1. Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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  2. Patrizia Bello

    1. Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Objects and Beholders

    1. Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Objects and Beholders

      • Luisa Calè, Patrizia Di Bello
      Pages 1-21

  4. Photographs and their Pleasures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. The Wont of Photography, or the Pleasure of Mimesis

      • Lindsay Smith
      Pages 65-86

    3. Aesthetic Encounters: the Erotic Visions of John Addington Symonds and Wilhelm Von Gloeden

      • Stefano Evangelista
      Pages 87-104

  5. Illustrations and Latent Images

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. ‘Latent Preparedness’: Literary Association and Visual Reminiscence in ‘Daisy Miller’

      • Graham Smith
      Pages 107-127

    3. A Modern Illustrated Magazine: The Yellow Book’s Poetics of Format

      • Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
      Pages 128-144

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 185-206
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

    Luisa Calè, Patrizia Bello

About the editors

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, UK MICHAEL 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 Fields SOPHIE THOMAS Associate Professor of English, Ryerson University, Canada HEATHER TILLEY School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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