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Victorian photography, painting, and poetry : the enigma of visibility in Ruskin, Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites

Title
  1. Victorian photography, painting, and poetry : the enigma of visibility in Ruskin, Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites / Lindsay Smith.
Published by
  1. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Author
  1. Smith, Lindsay.

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Description
  1. xiv, 245 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. This book explores the intersections between Victorian literature, painting, and photography. Taking as a starting-point mid-nineteenth-century developments in the understanding of visual perception, Lindsay Smith examines the representation of a pervasive desire for a literal understanding of the process of seeing and perceiving. This is played out in the aesthetic theory of John Ruskin, the early poetry of William Morris, paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, and in the photographic technique of combination printing. She demonstrates how the novel presence of the camera in nineteenth-century culture not only transforms acts of looking, but also affects major social, aesthetic and philosophical categories. By exploring the intricacies of photographic discourse she shows how Ruskin and Morris produce a critique of the earlier Cartesian perspectival model of vision.
Series statement
  1. Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 6
Uniform title
  1. Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 6.
Subject
  1. Morris, William 1834-1896
  2. Ruskin, John 1819-1900
  3. Englisch, ..
  4. Morris, William, (1834-1896) > Esthétique
  5. Ruskin, John, (1819-1900) > Esthétique
  6. Morris, William (Künstler, 1834-1896)
  7. Ruskin, John
  8. Geschichte 1850-1900
  9. Geschichte 1840-1850
  10. Arts, Victorian > Great Britain
  11. Arts, British
  12. Visual perception
  13. Visual Perception
  14. visual perception
  15. Arts, Victorian
  16. Druckwerk
  17. Literatur
  18. Lyrik
  19. Malerei
  20. Fotografie
  21. Poetik
  22. Präraffaeliten
  23. Schilderkunst
  24. Letterkunde
  25. Fotografie
  26. Victoriaanse tijd
  27. Visuele waarneming
  28. Arts, English
  29. Poésie anglaise > 19e siècle
  30. Art > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle
  31. Arts victoriens > Grande-Bretagne
  32. Perception visuelle
  33. Art victorien
  34. Peinture victorienne
  35. Littérature et photographie
  36. Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
  37. Perception visuelle dans la littérature
  38. Great Britain
  39. Großbritannien
  40. Englisch
Contents
  1. 1. Ruskin, Morris, and the (un)assertive eyes -- 2. 'Gaps on the mind's shelves': Ruskin's theory of the grotesque -- 3. 'The seed of the flower': photography and Pre-Raphaelitism -- 4. 'Where he cannot see, he will not venture far': the critical reception of The Defence of Guenevere -- 5. The optical agency of 'Rapunzel' -- 6. The politics of sight: The Defence of Guenevere and the optical determinants of medieval topography -- 7. Coda: through yellow lenses.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-239).