The lure of illustration in the nineteenth century: picture and press

This volume tackles the subject of illustration, technically, metaphorically and historically in nineteenth-century periodicals, displaying the ubiquity ofthe visual in the press: the articles cover material illustration, graphics, and design and metaphorical use of images in the letterpress, offering specific examples and theoretical approaches. INDICE: Contents - List of Illustrations - Notes on Contributors - Chronology - Introduction: Pictures and Press in the Nineteenth Century; L.Brake and M.Demoor - PART 1: 1800-1840 IMAGES IN DIVERSE TEXTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - The Illuminated Magazine and the Triumph of Wood Engraving; B.Maidment - Accurate dreams or illustrations of desire: Image and Text in the Gardenerb s Magazine (1826-44) edited by John Claudius Loudon; S.Dewis - Alaric 'Attila' Watts, the Fraserb s Portrait Gallery, and William Maginn; D.E.Latané, Jr. - 'The original to the life': portraiture and the Northern Star; M.Chase - PART 2: MID-CENTURY GRAPHICS: FICTION, FASHION, LABOUR AND LAYOUT - Man and Dog: Man and Dog: Textand Illustration in Dickensb s The Old Curiosity Shop; B.Gray - Elizabeth Gaskell: Journalism and Letters; J.Shattock - Among the Unknown Public: HouseholdWords, All the Year Round and the mass-market weekly periodical in the mid-nineteenth century; L.Huett - Often Taken Where a Tract is Refused: T.B. Smithies, the British Workman, and the Popularisation of the Religious and TemperanceMessage; F.Murray - Seductive Visual Studies: Scientific Focus and Editorial Control in The Woman in White and All the Year Round; L.Garrison - Depicting Gentlemenb s Fashions in the Tailor and Cutter, 1866-1900; C.Kent - PART 3: THE1890S: CHANGING FACES, CHANGING TECHNOLOGIES - Science and the Timeliness of Reproduced Photographs in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press; J.Mussell - Aestheticism on the Cheap: Decorative Art, Art Criticism, and Cheap Paper in the 1890s; L.Hughes - Putting Women in the Boat in The Idler (1892-1898) and TO-DAY (1893-1897); A.Humpherys - Images of Englishness: The Daily Chronicle and 'Proposed Laureates' to Succeed Tennyson; E.H.Cohen - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-21731-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 15/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés