Illustrations, optics and objects in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures / edited by Luisa Cale and Patrizia di Bello.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Contents--Notes on contributors--Foreword--H.Fraser--Introduction--L.Cal &--P. Di BelloPART I: BLINDING VISIONSEkphrasis and Terror: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria--S.ThomasWordsworth's Glasses and Blindness--H.TilleyPART II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND THEIR PLEASURESThe Wont of Photography, or, The Pleasure of Mimesis--L.SmithAesthetic Encounters: The Erotic Vision of John Addington Symonds and Wilhelm Von Gloeden--S.EvangelistaPART III: ILLUSTRATIONS AND LATENT IMAGES'Latent Preparedness': Literary Association and Visual Reminiscence in 'Daisy Miller'--G.SmithA Modern Illustrated Magazine: The Yellow Book's Poetics of Format--L.J.KooistraPART IV: PRECIOUS OBJECTSDandyism, Visuality and the 'Camp Gem': Collections of Jewels in Huysmans and Wilde--V.MillsThe Book Beautiful: Reading, Vision, and the Homosexual Imagination in Late Victorian Britain--M.HattIndex.