Main entry:

Galperin, William H.

Title & Author:

The return of the visible in British Romanticism / William H. Galperin.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1993.

Description:

xiv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-318) and index.
The return of the visible -- The panorama and the diorama : aids to distraction -- Constable's deception -- The mind in the "land of technology" : resistance to spectacle in Wordsworth's Prelude -- Lamb and Hazlitt : romantic antitheatricality and the body of genius -- Coleridge's antitheatricality : the quest for community -- Wordsworth, Friedrich, and the photographic impulse -- The postmodernism of Childe Harold -- Postscript : the feminization of Don Juan.
Also issued online.

Summary:

In this path-breaking study William Galperin offers a major revisionist reading of Romanticism that emphasizes the visible - as opposed to visionary - impulse in British Romantic poetry and prose. Employing a wide variety of theoretical insights, Galperin shows not only that the visual impulse is central to an understanding of Romanticism but also that the Romantic preoccupation with the "world seen" forms an integral part of the prehistory of cinema. Galperin challenges the assumption that a single philosophy characterized the art and culture of high Romanticism. Instead, he argues, the culture of the period - both high and low - was a site of competing ideas. From the poetry of Wordsworth and Byron to the painting of John Constable and Caspar David Friedrich to the precinematic institutions of the panorama and the diorama, The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism lends new vigor to ongoing debates about the nature of Romanticism lends new vigor to ongoing debates about the nature of Romanticism, nineteenth-century culture, and the origins of cinema.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

080184505X
9780801845055 (alk. paper)

Subject:

English literature 19th century History and criticism.
Art and literature Great Britain History 19th century.
Description (Rhetoric) History 19th century.
Visual perception in literature.
Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
Romanticism Great Britain.
Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Art et littérature Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Discours descriptif Histoire 19e siècle.
Perception visuelle dans la littérature.
Ut pictura poesis (Esthétique)
Romantisme Grande-Bretagne.
ut pictura poesis.
Art and literature.
Description (Rhetoric)
English literature.
Romanticism.
Englisch
Literatur
Malerei
Poetik
Romantik
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Ästhetische Wahrnehmung
Ut pictura poesis Geschichte 19. Jh
Kunst Englische Literatur Geschichte 19. Jh
Englische Literatur Kunst Geschichte 19. Jh
Englische Literatur Visuelle Wahrnehmung Geschichte 19. Jh
Visuelle Wahrnehmung Englische Literatur Geschichte 19. Jh
Englische Literatur Romantik
Erkenntnis
Kunst
Wahrnehmung
Romantisme (mouvement littéraire) Grande-Bretagne.
Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Thèmes, motifs.
Art et littérature Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle.
Perception visuelle Dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise
Perception visuelle
Esthétique
Romantisme
Ut pictura poesis (esthétique)
Geschichte (1793-1825)
Geschichte 1798-1832.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
English literature Romanticism

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 104196
Call No.: ID PLS PR457.G35; ID:94-B194
Status: Available