The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Plates
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Historicizing the Imagination
	Whose Imagination?
	Between Body and Mind
	Summary and Methods
	A Brief History of the Embodied Imagination
	Wonders, Monsters, and Virtuality
	Notes
Chapter 2 A Representation So Completely Ad Vivim
	Virtuality and Immersion
	Tracing the Capuchin Church
	Vexed Pleasures
	Moving Pictures
	Excavating the Past
	The Cultural Work of the Imagination
	Notes
Chapter 3 Staying on the Surface
	“A New Class of Pictures”
	Weighing the Fancy Piece
	Depth and Surface
	“Getting Stuck in Matter”
	The Shroud and the Veil
	Incarnate Redemption
	Notes
Chapter 4 Race-ing the Embodied Imagination
	Wine-Bibbing and Authority
	Luxury’s Other
	The Darkness Within
	Hunger and Desire in Palette’s Cabinet
	Finding Othello
	Notes
Chapter 5 Culturing the Embodied Imagination
	Cultivating Taste
	“Rather Ultra”
	Playing in the Margins
	Morbid Extravagance
	Effacing Class
	Nightmares
	The Sublimated Body
	Notes
Index