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Reading Victorian Illustration, 1855-1875 : Spoils of the Lumber Room.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317070955
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading Victorian Illustration, 1855-1875DDC classification:
  • 741.6/4094109034
LOC classification:
  • NC978 .R433 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Defining Illustration Studies: Towards a New Academic Discipline -- 2 Facsimile Versus White Line: An Anglo-German Disparity -- 3 A Bitter After-Taste: The Illustrated Gift Book of the 1860s -- 4 Happy Endings: Death and Domesticity in Victorian Illustration -- 5 Science and Art: Vestiges of Corpses in Pre-Raphaelite Illustrations -- 6 'Fleshing out' Time: Ford Madox Brown and the Dalziels' Bible Gallery -- 7 Making History: Text and Image in Harriet Martineau's Historiettes -- 8 'Reading the Pictures, Visualizing the Text': Illustrations in Dickens from Pickwick to the Household Edition, 1836 to 1870, Phiz to Fred Barnard -- 9 'Spoils of the lumber-room': Early Collectors of Wood-Engraved Illustrations from 1860s Periodicals -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: Re-evaluating the period in Victorian illustration known as 'The Sixties,' this volume examines figures such as Frederick Sandys, Ford Madox Brown and George John Pinwell to consider the impact of illustration on the act of reading and the sensibilities of the reading public. The collection offers a detailed and provocative analysis of the production, consumption and place of illustration within the broader contexts of mid-Victorian culture.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Defining Illustration Studies: Towards a New Academic Discipline -- 2 Facsimile Versus White Line: An Anglo-German Disparity -- 3 A Bitter After-Taste: The Illustrated Gift Book of the 1860s -- 4 Happy Endings: Death and Domesticity in Victorian Illustration -- 5 Science and Art: Vestiges of Corpses in Pre-Raphaelite Illustrations -- 6 'Fleshing out' Time: Ford Madox Brown and the Dalziels' Bible Gallery -- 7 Making History: Text and Image in Harriet Martineau's Historiettes -- 8 'Reading the Pictures, Visualizing the Text': Illustrations in Dickens from Pickwick to the Household Edition, 1836 to 1870, Phiz to Fred Barnard -- 9 'Spoils of the lumber-room': Early Collectors of Wood-Engraved Illustrations from 1860s Periodicals -- Works Cited -- Index.

Re-evaluating the period in Victorian illustration known as 'The Sixties,' this volume examines figures such as Frederick Sandys, Ford Madox Brown and George John Pinwell to consider the impact of illustration on the act of reading and the sensibilities of the reading public. The collection offers a detailed and provocative analysis of the production, consumption and place of illustration within the broader contexts of mid-Victorian culture.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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