Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
- (Introduction) Regarding Visuality: From the
Picturesque to the Panorama - ‘Shadows of a Magnitude’:
Keats, Fragments, and Vision - The Fragment in Ruins
- Seeing Past Rome: Ruins, History, Museums
- Romantic Idealism and the Interference of Sight
- Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double,
and the Gothic Subject - Seeing Things ("as they are"): Coleridge, Schiller,
and the Play of Semblance - Vision and Revulsion: Shelley, Medusa, and
the Phantasmagoria
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Sophie Thomas is Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex and taught previously at the University of Toronto. She is the author of articles on English Romanticism and visual culture and is working on a new book about fragments.
"Exploring the inter-relationship between literature and visual culture in the Romantic period, Thomas (humanities, U. of Sussex) looks at how seeing itself was viewed, both by people involved in creating visual spectacle and those who responded by writing in literature about the status of the visual. Her topics include the fragment in ruins, Romantic idealism and the interference of sight, and vision and revulsion in Shelley. Some of the chapters have been published as independent essays." -- Book News Inc., August 2008
