The only volume to comprehensively bring together developments from different disciplines that address the complex interplay between British Romantic literature and the visual arts
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.
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At last, proper emphasis is given to the interaction between print and the visual cultures of the Romantic period. Wonderfully comprehensive and authoritative, ranging from aesthetic discourse through exhibition practices, popular spectacle, the print shop, illustration, magazine culture and the afterlife of Romanticism in film. Inspirational and indispensable in equal measure. -- Nicola Watson, Open University
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,
17501840, Joan Coutu7. Public Improvement as National Ornament: Commerce,
Culture, and Patriotism in London and Edinburgh, Alison OByrne8.
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 Blakes 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 Mornings 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 Beauclerks 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
Index
Maureen McCue is former Senior Lecturer in nineteenth-century British Literature at Bangor University (UK). She is the author of British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 17931840 (Ashgate, 2014), which was short-listed for the British Association of Romantic Studies First Book Prize (2015). She has published essays on Romantic periodicals, the development of the National Gallery in London, Anglo-Italian relations and illustrations. Her current project, funded in part by the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, examines how the rich ecology of womens visual lives determined the periods wider print culture. Sophie Thomas is Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author of Romanticism and Visuality: Fragments, History, Spectacle (Routledge, 2008), and of numerous articles and chapters that address the crosscurrents between literature, material culture and visual culture in the Romantic period. She is currently completing a book on objects, collections, and museums at the turn of the nineteenth centuryThe Romantic Museum, 1770 1830: Matter, Memory, and the Poetics of Thingsand beginning a new, funded program of research on Romanticism, museums and the poetics of sculpture.
