The Victorian Illustrated Book

Throughout the nineteenth century, but most intensely in the reign of Queen Victoria, England and Scotland produced an unprecedented range of extraord inary illustrated books. Images in books became a central feature of Victor ian culture. They were at once prestigious and populara kind of entertai nmentbut equally a place for pondering fundamental questions about histo ry, geography, language, time, commerce, design, and vision itself. Concent rating on the use of illustration in literatureespecially novels, poems, and children's booksthe essays collected in The Victorian Illustrated B ook address a wide chronological and stylistic range of work. They offer fr esh insights into such diverse topics as illustration in the books of Charl es Dickens and William Morris, 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 postmodern ist experiments with the form of the book. Contributors:Steven Dillon, Bates CollegeNicholas Frankel, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityCharles Harmon, Loyola UniversityElizabeth Helsinger, University of ChicagoSimon Joyce, Texas Christian UniversityRichard Maxwell, Valparaiso UniversityRobert L. Patten, Rice UniversityJeffrey Skoblow, Southern Illinois University at EdwardsvilleKatie Trumpener, University of ChicagoHerbert Tucker, University of Virginia.

Product Info

ISBN: 0813920973

ISBN-13: 9780813920979

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Year: 2002

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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