Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/24/2024
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
4010 JFSB
Category(ies)
The Humanities Center and Romantic & Victorian Research Group are pleased to welcome Bruce Graver from Providence College as this week’s colloquium speaker. Professor Graver, one of the original Cornell Wordsworth editors, has been a distinguished scholar and generous mentor in the field of Romantic Studies for many years. His talk grows out of his forthcoming book, The Stereoscopic Picturesque: Nineteenth-Century Photography, Literary Landscapes, and the Third Dimension. We hope you will join us on Thursday, October 24 at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB.
Title: “Tintern and the Wye: A Stereoscopic Tour”
This talk traces the walking tour of the Wye Valley (near the border of England and Wales) that William and Dorothy Wordsworth undertook in July, 1798, and that produced one of the great Romantic lyrics, “Tintern Abbey.” Professor Graver will illustrate the tour with early stereoscopic photographs of Tintern Abbey, Chepstow Castle, and the Wye Valley, which will be paired with earlier picturesque drawings and prints of the same scenes, in order to show both the indebtedness of early photographers to the picturesque tradition and the ways stereoscopic photography made possible a technological extension of landscape art.
