The Victorian illustrated book
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The Victorian illustrated book
（Victorian literature and culture series）
University Press of Virginia, 2002
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Walter Scott, historical fiction, and the genesis of the Victorian illustrated book / Richard Maxwell
- Illustrations of time : watches, dials, and clocks in Victorian pictures / Steven Dillon
- Serial illustration and storytelling in David Copperfield / Robert L. Patten
- Maps and metaphors : topographical representation and the sense of place in late-Victorian fiction / Simon Joyce
- Literal illustration in Victorian print / Herbert F. Tucker
- William Morris before Kelmscott : poetry and design in the 1860s / Elizabeth K. Helsinger
- Beyond reading : Kelmscott and the modern / Jeffrey Skoblow
- Aubrey Beardsley "Embroiders" the literary text / Nicholas Frankel
- Alvin Langdon Coburn's frontispieces to Henry James's New York edition : pictures of an institutional imaginary / Charles Harmon
- City scenes : commerce, utopia, and the birth of the picture book / Katie Trumpener
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Description
Throughout the 19th century, but most intensely in the reign of Queen Victoria, England and Scotland produced an unprecedented range of extraordinary illustrated books. Images in books became a central feature of Victorian culture. They were at once prestigious and popular - a kind of entertainment - but equally a place for pondering fundamental questions about history, geography, language, time, commerce, design and vision itself. Concentrating on the use of illustration in literature - especially novels, poems and children's books - the essays collected in this text address a wide chronological and stylistic range of work. They offer insights into such diverse topics as: the century's best-known illustrators, including George Cruickshank, William Morris and Aubrey Beardsley; the use of words as images; the intersection of children's books and shopping; the use of maps in fiction; the decline of illustrated volumes after Queen Victoria's death; and the proposal that Victorian illustration was a major inspiration for modernist and postmodernist experiments with the form of the book.
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