Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures

1. Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Objects and Beholders
Luisa Calè, Patrizia Bello

Part I. Blinding Visions

2. Ekphrasis and Terror: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria
Sophie Thomas

3. Wordsworth’s Glasses: the Materiality of Blindness in the Romantic Vision
Heather Tilley

Part II. Photographs and their Pleasures

4. The Wont of Photography, or the Pleasure of Mimesis
Lindsay Smith

5. Aesthetic Encounters: the Erotic Visions of John Addington Symonds and Wilhelm Von Gloeden
Stefano Evangelista

Part III. Illustrations and Latent Images

6. ‘Latent Preparedness’: Literary Association and Visual Reminiscence in ‘Daisy Miller’
Graham Smith

7. A Modern Illustrated Magazine: The Yellow Book’s Poetics of Format
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra

Part IV. Precious Objects

8. Dandyism, Visuality and the ‘Camp Gem’: Collections of Jewels in Huysmans and Wilde
Victoria Mills

9. The Book Beautiful: Reading, Vision, and the Homosexual Imagination in Late Victorian Britain
Michael Hatt

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Arts, Fine Arts, Cultural Studies, European Literature