| Description |
xxix, 371 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- "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 -- Author as spectacle and commodity : Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Thomas Hardy / Linda M. Shires -- 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. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Illustration of books -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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English literature -- 19th century -- Illustrations.
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Illustration of books, Victorian -- Great Britain.
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Visual perception in literature.
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Art, British -- 19th century.
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| Added Author |
Christ, Carol T.
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Jordan, John O.
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| ISBN |
0520200225 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0520086414 (alk. paper) |
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