Table of Contents; Timeline of Case Studies; Preface; Introduction: Literary Visuality Studies; I. Visual Descriptions; Playbooks as Imaginary Theatre: Visuality and Description in Early Modern English Drama; Descriptive Visuality and Postmodernist Fiction; II. Readerly Visualisations; Ekphrasis as Genre, Ekphrasis as Metaphenomenology; The Iconic Power of Short Stories -- A Cognitive Approach; III. Textual Visibilities; Media History in Seventeenth- and Twentieth-Century Visual Poetry in English: Two Case Studies; Non-linear Readings: The Dictionary Novel as a Visual Genre
