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Fuseli's Milton gallery [[electronic resource] ] : 'turning readers into spectators' / / Luisa Calè



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Autore: Calè Luisa Visualizza persona
Titolo: Fuseli's Milton gallery [[electronic resource] ] : 'turning readers into spectators' / / Luisa Calè Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Clarendon Press
New York, : Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/005
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: 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.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 and 1799 Swiss painter Henry Fuseli turned Milton's Paradise Lost into a series of 40 pictures. Fuseli's project and other
Titolo autorizzato: Fuseli's Milton Gallery  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-75503-2
0-19-151486-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451152003321
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Serie: Oxford English monographs.