Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction The Visual Impulse in Prose: Border Crossings and the Anxieties of Interdisciplinarity
Chapter 1 Towards a Visual Discourse: Theories of the Origin of Language, Enargeia, Ekphrasis and Associationism
Chapter 2 Diderot’s Visual Prose: Gesture, Hieroglyph and the Visual Imagination
Chapter 3 Baudelaire and the Salons: The Critic as Artist
Chapter 4 Les Paradis Artificiels, Le Surnaturel and the Prose Poem : The Aesthetics of Psychological Flânerie
Chapter 5 Ruskin and the Language of Images
Chapter 6 Ruskin’s Moving Images: The Politics and the Poetics of the Paragone
Conclusion Diderot, Baudelaire, Ruskin: Envisioning Visionaries
Bibliography

About the Author

Alexandra Wettlaufer is an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of Pen vs. Paintbrush: Girodet, Balzac and the Myth of Pygmalion, she specializes in nineteenth-century literature and the visual arts.