THE SHOCK OF THE REAL

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Already in the century before photographys emergence as a mass medium a diverse popular visual culture had risen to challenge the British literary establishment. The bourgeois fashion for new visual media from prints and illustrated books to theatrical spectacles and panoramas rejected high. Romantic concepts of original genius and the sublime in favor of massproduced images and the thrill of realistic effects. In response the literary elite declared the new visual media an offense to Romantic idealism. Simulations of nature Coleridge declared are loathsome and disgusting. The Shock of the Real offers a tour of Romantic visual culture from the West End stage to the touristfilled Scottish Highlands from the panoramas of Leicester Square to the photography studios of Second Empire Paris. But in presenting the relation between word and image in the late Georgian age as a form of culture war the author also proposes an alternative account of Romantic aesthetic ideology as a reaction not against the rationalism of the Enlightenment but against the visual mediaTheater and Painting The Legible Face: Romantic AntiTheatricality and the Cult of Garrick Performing the Real: Reynolds Mrs. Abington and the Birth of Celebrity Culture Prints and Exhibitions Reynolds between the Royal Academy and the Print Trade Contracted Optics: Haydon and the Cult of Immensity Panoramas The AntiSublime: Wordsworth and the Virtual Landscapes of Leicester Square Ruins and Museums Sentimental Distances in Schiller Winckelmann and Diderot Keats and the Ruins of Imperialism Byrons Curse or The Strange Case of Lord Elgins Nose Illustration TourAs wellwritten and thoughtful as it is broad in scope the book should be required reading... Bradford Mudge The WordsworthGILLEN DARCY WOOD is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Illinois at U

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