A comprehensive account of the circulation and adaptation of literature in late 18th-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. Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-247) and index.
Contents:
The literary galleries and the field of art -- The spectator turned reader : printed text at the galleries -- The reader turned spectator : visual narratives -- 'Satan encount'ring death, sin interposing' : Milton' s allegory and the politics of seeing -- The plot of Adam and Eve.
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