Fuseli's Milton gallery [electronic resource] : 'turning readers into spectators' / Luisa Calè.
Series: Oxford English monographsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; New York : Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: xiv, 259 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cmSubject(s):- Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost -- Illustrations
- Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 -- Criticism and interpretation
- English literature -- History and criticism
- Art and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century
- English literature -- Illustrations
- Illustration of books -- England -- 18th century
- Popular culture -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 18th century
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- PR408.A68 C36 2006eb
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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