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UNINA9910451152003321 |
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Autore |
Calè€ Luisa |
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Titolo |
Fuseli's Milton gallery [[electronic resource] ] : 'turning readers into spectators' / / Luisa Calè€ |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Clarendon Press |
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New York, : Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-75503-2 |
0-19-151486-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford English monographs |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - History and criticism |
Art and literature - England - History - 18th century |
English literature |
Illustration of books - England - 18th century |
Popular culture - England - History - 18th century |
Books and reading - England - History - 18th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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A comprehensive account of the circulation and adaptation of literature in late 18th-century art, explores the visual dimension of reading in an emerging visual culture and offers a range of new ways of reading literature and painting together. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The literary galleries and the field of art -- The spectator turned reader : printed text at the galleries -- The reader turned spectator : visual narratives -- 'Satan encount'ring death, sin interposing' : Milton' s allegory and the politics of seeing -- The plot of Adam and Eve. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Between 1791 and 1799 Swiss painter Henry Fuseli turned Milton's Paradise Lost into a series of 40 pictures that were exhibited in London in 1799 and 1800. Starting from Fuseli's adaptation, Cal--egrave--; analyses how visual practices impact on the act of reading and calls into question the separation of reading and viewing as autonomous aesthetic practices. - ;Fuseli's Milton Gallery challenges the anti-pictorial theories and canons of Romantic period culture. Between 1791 |
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