W B Gerard

Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

The first full-length and comprehensive study of the illustrations of Sterne's work, this book explores the ability of Sterne's texts to arouse the visual imagination. It helps to explain why editions of his fiction have been illustrated, some profusely: to fulfill the reader's desire, as well as the artist's compulsion, to visualize Sterne's words. Gerard places his subject in a clear and innovative theoretical framework which opens the field to general word and image studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780754656739
• ISBN-10: 075465673X
• Artikelnr.: 44974337

Autorenporträt

W.B. Gerard is an Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery, USA. His research examines Laurence Sterne, the long eighteenth century, and visual culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The pictorial appeal of Sterne
Text, imagination, picture
Eight ways of looking at Trim reading the sermon, 1883-1995
The ethics of vision: sentimentalism in contemporary illustration of A Sentimental Journey and The Man of Feeling
Icon of the heart: Maria as sentimental emblem, 1773-1888
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.