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