Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Calè, Luisa
Title:
Fuseli's Milton gallery : turning readers into spectators / Luisa Cale.
Published / Created:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Physical Description:
xiv, 259 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006028316.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
A comprehensive account of the circulation and adaptation of literature in late 18th-century art, explores the visual dimension of reading in an emerging visual culture and offers a range of new ways of reading literature and painting together.
Contents:
The literary galleries, the market, and the field of art -- The spectator turned reader : printed text at the galleries -- The reader turned spectator : visual narratives -- Satan encountering death, sin interposing : Milton' s allegory and the politics of seeing -- The plot of Adam and Eve.
Subject Terms:
English literature -- History and criticism. | Art and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century. | Milton, John, 1608–1674. Paradise lost -- Illustrations. | Fuseli, Henry, 1741–1825 -- Criticism and interpretation. | English literature -- Illustrations. | Illustration of books -- England -- 18th century. | Popular culture -- England -- History -- 18th century. | Books and reading -- England -- History -- 18th century.