The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts

The book explores the complex interplay between British Romantic literature and the visual arts, covering a wide range of intermedial cultural productions from popular to elite, and from the public to the domestic sphere. It includes cutting-edge research from an interdisciplinary group of writers, literary scholars, art historians, and exhibition curators, reflecting the global significance of this growing field.

Format: Hardback
Length: 556 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2022
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

The only volume to comprehensively bring together developments from different disciplines that address the complex interplay between British Romantic literature and the visual arts is a groundbreaking work that covers a wide range of intermedial cultural productions, from popular to elite, and from the public to the domestic sphere. This comprehensive volume explores the rich and complex relationship between British Romantic literature and the visual arts, encompassing a diverse array of intermedial cultural productions, including literary texts, paintings, prints, literary galleries, exhibition catalogues, illustrated magazines, household objects, and design.

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. This volume brings together work from 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.

In conclusion, this groundbreaking volume is a must-read for anyone interested in the complex interplay between British Romantic literature and the visual arts. It offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective on this dynamic and ever-evolving field, providing valuable insights into the ways in which visual culture shaped and was shaped by Romantic literature.

Weight: 1130g
Dimension: 177 x 251 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474484176