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

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Foreword; H.Fraser Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Objects and Beholders; L.Calè & P. Di Bello PART I: BLINDING VISIONS Ekphrasis and Terror: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria; S.Thomas Wordsworth's Glasses: the Materiality of Blindness in the Romantic Vision; H.Tilley PART II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND THEIR PLEASURES The Wont of Photography, or the Pleasure of Mimesis; L.Smith Aesthetic Encounters: the Erotic Visions of John Addington Symonds and Wilhelm Von Gloeden; S.Evangelista PART III: ILLUSTRATIONS AND LATENT IMAGES 'Latent Preparedness': Literary Association and Visual Reminiscence in Daisy Miller ; G.Smith A Modern Illustrated Magazine: The Yellow Book Poetics of Format; L.J.Kooistra PART IV: PRECIOUS OBJECTS Dandyism, Visuality and the 'Camp Gem': Collections of Jewels in Huysmans and Wilde; V.Mills The Book Beautiful: Reading, Vision, and the Homosexual Imagination in Late Victorian Britain; M.Hatt Bibliography Index