Ebook: Textual Vision : Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture
Author: Erwin Timothy
- Tags: Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century., Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 18th century., English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism., Landscapes in literature., Picturesque The in literature.
- Series: Transits: Literature Thought & Culture 1650- 850
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Bucknell University Press
- City: Cranbury
- Language: English
- epub
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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