Fuseli's Milton gallery : 'turning readers into spectators' /
Calè, Luisa.
Oxford : Clarendon Press,
2006.
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 (p. [225]-247) and index.
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.
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825
English literature
Art and literature
English literature
Illustration of books
Popular culture
Books and reading