Woodslane | Book - 9781611486650

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ISBN-13: 9781611486650
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Timothy Erwin
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Local release date: 14/07/2017
Format: Paperback 310 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Literature: history & criticism [DS]

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Google Preview: A stylish critique of literary attitudes towards painting, Textual Vision 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.; 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 Savage Plates Gallery Chapter Three: Visual Discourse in Hogarth, the Early Novel, and History Chapter Four: Picturing Jane Austen Bibliography Index About the Author; Google Preview content