Textual Vision
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Art History
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British Literature
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Eighteenth-Century Literature
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Literary Studies
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- ISBN 9781611485691
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Bucknell University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Timothy Erwin is professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
