The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts

## The only volume to comprehensively bring together developments from different disciplines that address the complex interplay between British Romantic literature and the visual arts * It covers a wide range of intermedial cultural productions, from popular to elite, and from the public to the domestic sphere, including literary texts, paintings and prints, literary galleries, exhibition catalogues, illustrated magazines, household objects and design * All the essays in this volume are newly commissioned and include cutting edge research from an interdisciplinary group of writers, literary scholars, art historians, and exhibition curators * It brings together work of emerging as well as established scholars in the field, from Europe, North America and Australia, reflecting the global significance of this growing field From the birth of the museum to the explosion of mass-produced illustrated books, the Romantic period (c. 1770-1840) was a moment of rapid change and fruitful experimentation in the fields of art and literature alike. New advances in print production encouraged a wider range of readers to engage with literary forms that opened a path into the once aristocratic field of the visual arts. This Companion captures the way recent engagements with visual studies have reshaped how we approach and understand the boundaries between print and visual culture in the period. It brings together 27 research-led chapters that offer a detailed account of the productive, if sometimes tense, interactions between emergent forms of intermedial expression that were redefining culture in the Romantic period -- as they continue to do today. Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Perspectives 1 ‘The happiest vehicles of antiquarian knowledge’: The Visual Arts and Romantic Antiquarianism 2 The Gothic Aesthetic: Word and Image 3 Aesthetic Landscapes: Travel and Tourism 4 Visualising the Indigenous Pacific 5 Elite and Popular Orientalisms Part II Exhibition, Commerce and Culture 6 Collecting and the Country House, 1750–1840 7 Public Improvement as ‘National Ornament’: Commerce, Culture and Patriotism in London and Edinburgh 8 Commemoration, Domestic Display and the Decorative Arts: Romantic Nelsonia 9 Building(s) for Art: The Evolution of Public Art Galleries in England, 1780–1840 10 Exhibitions Culture, Consumerism and the Romantic Artist 11 Portraiture: Commerce and Celebrity 12 Convergence and Dissonance: Romantic Theatre and the Visual Arts 13 Sound and Vision in Blake’s London 14 Taken By Storm: Multisensory Learning in the Lecture Room 15 Romanticism, ‘Real’ Illusions and the Transformation of Experience in Modernity Part III Circulations: Print Culture and the Arts 16 Romantic Art and the Novel 17 Mired in Print: Romantic Writers and Caricature 18 ‘A Point to Aim at in a Morning’s Walk’: Encounters at the Print Shop 19 Illustrated Poetry in the Romantic Period 20 Fashioning the Female Artist: Allegory and Celebrity in Lady Diana Beauclerk’s Watercolours of The Faerie Queene 21 Angelica Kauffman and the Sister Arts 22 Illustrated Magazines and Periodicals: Visual Genres and Gendered Aspirations Part IV Romanticism Reimagined, the 1830s and Beyond 23 Album Culture: Begging for Scraps 24 Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Poetry: Mise-en-Page and the Visual Rhythms of Seriality 25 Romantic Caricatures and Comics 26 Cultural Manifestations of Romanticism on the Contemporary Screen 27 Looking Back Through Fashion: Regency Romances and a ‘Jumble of Styles’ Notes on Contributors Index "From the birth of the museum to the explosion of mass-produced illustrated books, the Romantic period (c. 1770-1840) was a moment of rapid change and fruitful experimentation in the fields of art and literature alike. New advances in print production encouraged a wider range of readers to engage with literary forms that opened a path into the once aristocratic field of the visual arts. This Companion captures the way recent engagements with visual studies have reshaped how we approach and understand the boundaries between print and visual culture in the period. It brings together 27 research-led chapters that offer a detailed account of the productive, if sometimes tense, interactions between emergent forms of intermedial expression that were redefining culture in the Romantic period -- as they continue to do today" -- $$c Provided by publisher