Fuseli's Milton gallery [[electronic resource] ] : 'turning readers into spectators' / / Luisa Calè
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Calè Luisa
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Fuseli's Milton gallery [[electronic resource] ] : 'turning readers into spectators' / / Luisa Calè
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| 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 | |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-383-04098-2 |
| 1-280-75503-2 | |
| 0-19-151486-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807479703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Oxford English monographs.