Textual Vision
Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture
1st Edition
Published on 6. March 2015
308 pages
978-1-61148-570-7 (ISBN)
Description
A stylish critique of literary attitudes towards painting, TextualVision explores the simultaneous rhetorical formation and empirical fragmentation of visual reading in enlightenment Britain. Beginning with an engaging treatment of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Timothy Erwin takes the reader on a guided tour of the pointed allusion, apt illustration, or the subtle appeal to the mind's eye within a wide array of genres and texts, before bringing his linked case studies to a surprising close with the fiction of Jane Austen.
At once carefully researched, theoretically informed and highly imaginative, Textual Vision situates textual vision at the cultural crossroads of ancient pictura-poesis doctrine and modernist aesthetics. It provides reliable interpretive poles for reading enlightenment imagery, offers vivid new readings of familiar works, and promises to invigorate the study of Restoration and eighteenth-century visual culture.
At once carefully researched, theoretically informed and highly imaginative, Textual Vision situates textual vision at the cultural crossroads of ancient pictura-poesis doctrine and modernist aesthetics. It provides reliable interpretive poles for reading enlightenment imagery, offers vivid new readings of familiar works, and promises to invigorate the study of Restoration and eighteenth-century visual culture.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
28 BW Photos, 10 Color Photos
ISBN-13
978-1-61148-570-7 (9781611485707)
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03/2015
Bucknell University Press,U.S.
€161.93
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Person
Timothy Erwin is professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Short titles
Introduction: Image, Ekphrasis, and Verbal Coloring
Chapter One: Bold Design in Alexander Pope
Chapter Two: Promise and Performance in Johnson's Life of SavagePlates Gallery
Chapter Three: Visual Discourse in Hogarth, the Early Novel, and History
Chapter Four: Picturing Jane Austen
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Short titles
Introduction: Image, Ekphrasis, and Verbal Coloring
Chapter One: Bold Design in Alexander Pope
Chapter Two: Promise and Performance in Johnson's Life of SavagePlates Gallery
Chapter Three: Visual Discourse in Hogarth, the Early Novel, and History
Chapter Four: Picturing Jane Austen
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
