Fuseli's Milton gallery
Subtitle: 'turning readers into spectators'
By: Luisa Calè
Series: Oxford English monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Published in the United States by Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780199267385
Subjects: Milton, John, -- 1608-1674. -- Illustrations; Fuseli, Henry, -- 1741-1825 -- Criticism and interpretation; English literature -- History and criticism; Art and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century; English literature -- Illustrations; Illustration of books -- England -- 18th century; Popular culture -- England -- History -- 18th century; Books and reading -- England -- History -- 18th century
Genres: Illustrations
Notes: 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
Table of contents: title: The literary galleries and the field of art; title: The spectator turned reader : printed text at the galleries; title: The reader turned spectator : visual narratives; title: 'Satan encount'ring death, sin interposing' : Milton' s allegory and the politics of seeing; title: The plot of Adam and Eve