Title & Author:

Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination / edited by Carol T. Christ and John O. Jordan.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.

Description:

xxix, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Were they having fun yet? Victorian optical gadgetry, modernist selves / Susan R. Horton -- Shared lines : pen and pencil as trace / Gerard Curtis -- Image versus text in the illustrated novels of William Makepeace Thackeray / Judith L. Fisher -- "The right thing in the right place" : P.H. Emerson and the picturesque photograph / Jennifer M. Green -- Dust piles and damp pavements : excrement, repression, and the Victorian city in photography and literature / Ellen Handy -- Making darkness visible : capturing the criminal and observing the law in Victorian photography and detective fiction / Ronald R. Thomas -- Victoria's sovereign obedience : portraits of the Queen as wife and mother / Margaret Homans --The author as spectacle and commodity : Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Thomas Hardy / Linda M. Shires -- The hero as spectacle : Carlyle and the persistence of dandyism / James Eli Adams -- Street figures : Victorian urban iconography / Richard L. Stein -- Seeing the unseen : pictorial problematics and Victorian images of class, poverty, and urban life / Susan P. Casteras -- John Millais's children : faith and erotics: The Woodman's daughter (1851) / Robert M. Polhemus --Seeing is believing in Enoch Arden / Miriam Bailin --Spectacular sympathy : visuality and ideology in Dicken's A Christmas carol / Audrey Jaffe -- Reading figures : the legible image of Victorian textuality / Garrett Stewart.

Summary:

Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imagination, the role of photography in changing the conception of evidence and truth, the changing partnership between illustrator and novelist, and the ways in which literary texts represent the visual. Together they begin to construct a history of seeing in the Victorian period. Publisher's description.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0520086414 (alk. paper)
9780520086418 (alk. paper)
0520200225 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520200227 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

English literature 19th century History and criticism.
Art and literature Great Britain History 19th century.
Illustration of books Great Britain 19th century.
English literature 19th century Illustrations.
Illustration of books, Victorian Great Britain.
Visual perception in literature.
Art, British 19th century.
Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Art et littérature Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Illustrations.
Illustration des livres victoriennes Grande-Bretagne.
Perception visuelle dans la littérature.
Art britannique 19e siècle.
Illustration des livres Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle.
Illustration des livres victorienne Grande-Bretagne.
Art and literature.
Art, British.
English literature.
Illustration of books.
Illustration of books, Victorian.
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Illustration
Kunst
Literatur
Engels.
Letterkunde.
Boeken.
Illustraties.
Visuele waarneming.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Illustration of books Great Britain History 19th century.
Art, English 19th century.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Englisch.
English literature History, 1837-1900

Form/genre:

illustrations (layout features)
Pictures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Illustrated works.
Images.

Added entries:

Christ, Carol T.
Jordan, John O.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 122116
Call No.: ID PR468.A76 V5; ID:96-B848
Status: Available