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SUMMARY:Photography\, Travel Writing and nineteenth-century Rome - Victori
 a Mills (University of Cambridge\, English)
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CONTACT:Dr Katherine Bowers
DESCRIPTION:In the second half of the nineteenth century\, the Leipzig pub
 lisher Bernhard Tauchntiz and Co. seized an opportunity to profit from the
  burgeoning British and American tourist market in Italy. Tauchnitz produc
 ed unbound editions of novels and travel guides set in Italy including Nat
 haniel Hawthorne’s _The Marble Faun_ (the most popular edition)\, George
  Eliot’s _Romola_\, Edward Bulwer Lytton’s _Last days of Pompeii_ and 
 Rienzi and Charles Dickens’s _Pictures from Italy_. These books containe
 d blank spaces onto which tourists could paste photographs or postcards re
 lating to scenes in the text. Next to Hawthorne’s description of the Fau
 n of Praxiteles\, for example\, visitors would paste or\, in some cases\, 
 tip into the binding\, a photograph of the sculpture.\n\nIn this talk I wi
 ll consider this form of extra-illustration as a touristic practice\, plac
 ing it in the context of a longer history of photographically illustrated 
 travel writing. I examine the relationship between the Tauchnitz volumes a
 s embodied texts and the embodied aspects of Victorian literary tourism an
 d I connect the practice of extra-illustration to a discourse of tactility
  evident in Hawthorne’s ekphrastic writing\, exploring his response to t
 he material\, tangible past.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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