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The Mind's Sigh: Pictured Reading in Nineteenth-Century Painting
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The Mind's Sigh: Pictured Reading in Nineteenth-Century Painting

Garrett Stewart
Victorian studies, Vol.46(2), pp.217-230
2004
DOI: 10.2979/VIC.2004.46.2.217

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Abstract

Stewart examines the genre of painted reading during the nineteenth-century. He claims that with the act of reading in real time, a text's unheard melodies ripple through the bodily sensorium, including the kinesthetic dimension of even silent enunciation. Painted reading can only generate the image of such energy under wraps, invisible on the body's surface, offering as the tacit fact of reading everything that must go unseen in the licensed voyeurism of the pose.
19th century Art history Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Literature Painting Reading Victorian period Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)

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