Goethe's Faust I Outlined Moritz Retzsch's Prints in Circulation
"In a new approach to Goethe's "Faust I", Evanghelia Stead extensively discusses Moritz Retzsch's twenty-six outline prints (1816) and how their spin-offs made the unfathomable play available to larger reader communities through copying and extensive distribution circuits, i...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Brill
[2023]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Library of the written word ;
Volume 113. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009787029406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- front cover
- 9789004543010_webready_content_text
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Air View and Ant Perspective: Moritz Retzsch's Etchings after Goethe's Faust I
- 1 Retzsch in the German States, a Borderline Celebrity
- 1.1 Profile in Contrast
- 1.2 Romantic Pranks and Rituals
- 1.3 Portraits and Sociability
- 1.4 A Poetic Mind
- 1.5 The Toils of Fancy and Melancholy
- 1.6 Fluctuating Fate in Nineteenth-Century German States
- 1.7 Plights and Plusses of Comparison (Retzsch, Cornelius &
- Naeke)
- 1.8 German Amendments in the Twentieth Century
- 1.9 Conclusion
- 2 Faust I Outlined and the Original Retzsch Effect
- 2.1 A Modern Fourfold Device
- 2.2 Goethe's Gifts
- 2.3 In Goethe's Orb
- 2.4 Retzsch at Work: Early Correspondence
- 2.5 A Speculation on Relics
- 2.6 "Full of Spirit"
- 2.7 Outline Reformation
- 2.8 Retzsch in Colour
- 2.9 To conclude
- 3 German Editions and Copies: The Bait of Rich Morsels
- 3.1 Avowable (and Uncertain) Cotta Portfolios
- 3.2 From Portfolios to Albums
- 3.3 Pirated Goods
- 3.4 Styled for the Ladies
- 3.5 Valuing Copies in Visual Circulation
- 4 First Steps in Britain
- 4.1 A Momentous Gift from Perthes to Crabb Robinson
- 4.2 Imported Wares and Motley Exemplars
- 4.3 Media Coverage and Publicity (A Mediated Launch)
- 4.4 A First English Point of View (George Soane's Letterpress)
- 4.5 Books as Cultural Objects: Readers and Cultural Representation
- 4.6 Dibdin in Action
- 5 Retzsch Copied in Britain and Beyond
- 5.1 Attractive and Collectable
- 5.2 Cultural Adaptability
- 5.3 Boosey's 1820 Edition Re-issued?
- 5.4 "A More Careful Abstract"
- 5.5 Faustus as Template
- 5.6 Retzsch Gains Ground in Other Garb and Guises
- 5.7 Retzsch Wielded by Illustration
- 5.8 Competing Formats
- 5.9 "Bound to Please".
- 5.10 First Conclusions on Foreign Circulation
- 6 Retzsch in France and Belgium
- 6.1 Retzsch by Muret for Artists, Readers, and Print Collectors
- 6.2 Three Little Audot
- 6.3 A Francized Original Retzsch
- 6.4 Copies vs. Originals? The Brussels Case
- 6.5 Retzsch in French Nineteenth-Century Print Culture
- 6.6 Retzsch's Diffuse Influence
- 6.7 Conclusion
- 7 Extensive and Intensive Iconography
- 7.1 Loose Leaves
- 7.2 Copies, Copies, Copies …
- 7.3 Bowdlerizing
- 7.4 A Kiss's Exceptional Fortune
- 7.5 Spread and Sway on Style, Form and Set
- 7.6 Extensive vs. Intensive Iconography
- 7.7 Extensive Rations
- 7.8 Intensive Inspiration
- 7.9 Recycling and Authorship in Image Circulation
- 8 The Power of Parody: A Crow amongst Nations
- 8.1 A Crow's Quill
- 8.2 Travesties
- 8.3 Mischief in Images
- 8.4 Homecoming and "Who Loves a Laugh"
- 8.5 A Mocking Deity with a Meerschaum Pipe
- 9 Outlines in the Limelight
- 9.1 Aptitudes and Assets
- 9.2 Weimar Trials
- 9.3 Staging: German Décors
- 9.4 British and French Décors
- 9.5 Time, Stage and the Arts
- 9.6 Performance: Fixed, Inviolable Instants?
- 9.7 Outfits: Models and Embodiment
- 9.8 Creating Types
- 9.9 In the Limelight over Time
- 10 Ink Worlds
- 10.1 Devilish Relish of Converted Israelites
- 10.2 Théophile Gautier from Travelogue to Aesthetics
- 10.3 Visual Traps in Prose
- 10.4 Pictures within the Picture in Illustrated Books
- 10.5 Games of Fiction, Tricks and Screens
- 11 Two Gifted Women
- 11.1 Goethe's and Byron's Gifts
- 11.2 The Book as a Rose
- 11.3 Twelve Apostles and a Faust
- 12 Artefacts: Poetics of Everyday Life
- 12.1 Treasures of Gold and China
- 12.2 Porcelain for the Many
- 12.3 Moulded and Backlit
- 12.4 In Tin and Frail Paper
- 12.5 Conclusion
- Conclusion: Grains of Sand as Cities.
- Appendix 1: Moritz Retzsch's 26 Umrisse in Original and Copied Editions
- Appendix 2: Moritz Retzsch's Prints Remediated
- Bibliography
- Index on Moritz Retzsch
- General Index
- back cover.
