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

Download or read book Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures written by L. Calè and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others.