Textual vision: Augustan design and the invention of eighteenth-century British culture

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Textual Vision offers a new and original perspective on Enlightenment visual culture as a contested area of representation, and its discussions of major authors like Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and Jane Austen are both learned and persuasive. This readable, well-written study also features Henry and Sarah Fielding, Samuel Richardson, William Hogarth, and G.F. Handel, among others. ;Abbreviations and short titles -- Introduction: image, ekphrasis, and verbal coloring -- Bold design in Alexander Pope -- Promise and performance in Johnson's Life of Savage -- Plates gallery -- Visual discourse in Hogarth, the early novel, and history -- Picturing Jane Austen. Abbreviations and short titles -- Introduction: image, ekphrasis, and verbal coloring -- Bold design in Alexander Pope -- Promise and performance in Johnson's Life of Savage -- Plates gallery -- Visual discourse in Hogarth, the early novel, and history -- Picturing Jane Austen.