Fuseli's Milton Gallery
'Turning Readers into Spectators'
ISBN13: 9780199267385ISBN10: 0199267383
Hardback,
273 pages
Feb 2007,
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Description
Between 1791 and 1799 Swiss painter Henry Fuseli turned Milton's Paradise Lost into a series of 40 pictures that were exhibited in London in 1799 and 1800. Starting from Fuseli's adaptation, Luisa Calè analyzes how visual practices impact on the act of reading and calls into question the separation of reading and viewing as autonomous aesthetic practices.Features
- A comprehensive account of the circulation and adaptation of literature in late eighteenth-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
- Richly illustrated
About the Author(s)
Luisa Calè, School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London
