Full Description
The only volume to comprehensively bring together developments from different disciplines that address the complex interplay between British Romantic literature and the visual arts
It covers a wide range of intermedial cultural productions, from popular to elite, and from the public to the domestic sphere, including literary texts, paintings and prints, literary galleries, exhibition catalogues, illustrated magazines, household objects and design
All the essays in this volume are newly commissioned and include cutting edge research from an interdisciplinary group of writers, literary scholars, art historians, and exhibition curators
It brings together work of emerging as well as established scholars in the field, from Europe, North America and Australia, reflecting the global significance of this growing field
From the birth of the museum to the explosion of mass-produced illustrated books, the Romantic period (c. 1770-1840) was a moment of rapid change and fruitful experimentation in the fields of art and literature alike. New advances in print production encouraged a wider range of readers to engage with literary forms that opened a path into the once aristocratic field of the visual arts. This Companion captures the way recent engagements with visual studies have reshaped how we approach and understand the boundaries between print and visual culture in the period. It brings together 27 research-led chapters that offer a detailed account of the productive, if sometimes tense, interactions between emergent forms of intermedial expression that were redefining culture in the Romantic period -- as they continue to do today.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction, Maureen McCue and Sophie Thomas
PART I: PERSPECTIVES1. 'The happiest vehicles of antiquarian knowledge': The Visual Arts and Romantic Antiquarianism, Katharina Boehm2. The Gothic Aesthetic: Word and Image, Katie Garner3. Aesthetic Landscapes: Travel and Tourism, Mary-Ann Constantine4. Visualizing the Indigenous Pacific, Kacie Wills5. Elite and Popular Orientalisms, Jim Watt
PART II: EXHIBITION, COMMERCE AND CULTURE6. Collecting and the Country House, 1750-1840, Joan Coutu7. Public Improvement as 'National Ornament': Commerce, Culture, and Patriotism in London and Edinburgh, Alison O'Byrne8. Commemoration, Domestic Display and the Decorative Arts: Romantic Nelsonia, Charlotte Boyce9. Building(s) For Art: The Evolution of Public Art Galleries in England, 1780-1840, Susanna Avery-Quash10. Exhibitions Culture, Consumerism and the Romantic Artist, Martin Myrone11. Portraiture: Commerce and Celebrity, Peter Funnell12. Convergence and Dissonance: Romantic Theatre and the Visual Arts, Heather McPherson13. Sound and Vision in Blake's London, James Grande14. Taken By Storm: Multisensory Learning in the Lecture Room, Sarah M. Zimmerman15. Romanticism, 'Real' Illusions, and the Transformation of Experience in Modernity, Peter Otto
PART III. CIRCULATIONS: PRINT CULTURE AND THE ARTS16. Romantic Art and the Novel, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson17. Mired in Print: Romantic Writers and Caricature, Ian Haywood18. 'A Point to Aim at in a Morning's Walk': Encounters at the Print Shop, Maureen McCue19. Illustrated Poetry in the Romantic Period, Susan Matthews20. Fashioning the Female Artist: Allegory and Celebrity in Lady Diana Beauclerk's Watercolours of The Faerie Queene, Laura Engel21. Angelica Kauffman and the Sister Arts, Thora Brylowe22. Illustrated Magazines and Periodicals: Visual Genres and Gendered Aspirations, Jennie Batchelor
PART IV: ROMANTICISM REIMAGINED, THE 1830S AND BEYOND23. Album Culture: Begging for Scraps, Samantha Matthews24. Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Poetry: Mise-en-Page and the Visual Rhythms of Seriality, Alison Chapman25. Romantic Caricature and Comics, Jason Whittaker26. Cultural Manifestations of Romanticism on the Contemporary Screen, Hila Shachar27. Looking Back Through Fashion: Regency Romances and a 'Jumble of Styles', Hilary Davidson
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