Shock of the Real

GILLEN D'ARCY WOOD is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Theater and Painting The Legible Face: Romantic Anti-Theatricality and the Cult of Garrick Performing the Real: Reynolds, Mrs. Abington, and the Birth of Celebrity Culture Prints and Exhibitions Reynolds between the Royal Academy and the Print Trade Contracted Optics: Haydon and the Cult of Immensity Panoramas The Anti-Sublime: Wordsworth and the Virtual Landscapes of Leicester Square Ruins and Museums Sentimental Distances in Schiller, Winckelmann and Diderot Keats and the Ruins of Imperialism Byron's Curse, or The Strange Case of Lord Elgin's Nose Illustration, Tourism, Photography

'As well-written and thoughtful as it is broad in scope, the book should be required reading...' - Bradford Mudge, The Wordsworth Circle