Textual Vision: Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850) - Hardcover

Erwin, Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 161148569X ISBN 13: 9781611485691

Publisher: Bucknell University Press, 2015

Synopsis

A stylish critique of literary attitudes towards painting, TextualVision 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.

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About the Author

Timothy Erwin is professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161148569X
• ISBN 13: 9781611485691
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310