Abstract
What price have we paid for the fantasy that there are free rights of access to the domain of the visual? That everyone with eyes to see can in fact stand on an equal footing in the republic of visuality. This fantasy has long been with us and its origins lie deep in our history of understanding the visual realm. This chapter will explore a signal moment in that history when the politics and erotics of the look take on special cadences within the cultural topography of eighteenth-century England.
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Robert and James Adam, The Works in Architecture, 3 vols (London, 1773–9), p. vi.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 383 (20 May 1712).
[John Lockman], A Sketch of the Spring Gardens, Vauxhall in a Letter to a noble Lord (London, [1752]), pp. 12–13.
Pierre Grosely, A Tour to London, 2 vols (London, 1772), vol. 1, p. 155.
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de Bolla, P. (1995). The Visibility of Visuality: Vauxhall Gardens and the Siting of the Viewer. In: Melville, S., Readings, B. (eds) Vision and Textuality. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24065-4_14
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