Title: The Victorian illustrated book /
Authors: Maxwell, Richard, 1948-
Publisher: University Press of Virginia,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Illustration of books Great Britain; Illustration of books, Victorian Great Britain.
Abstract: This volume contains a collection of essays that concentrate on the use of illustration in literature -- especially novels, poems, and children's books during the Victorian Age. Throughout the nineteenth century, but most intensely in the reign of Queen Victoria, England and Scotland produced an unprecedented range of extraordinary illustrated books. The images in these 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 the history, geography, language, time, commerce, design, and vision itself of the Victorians. The essays offer insights into such diverse topics as illustration in the books of Charles 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 postmodernist experiments with the form of the book.
Contents: 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 -- Afterword: the destruction, rebirth, and apotheosis of the Victorian illustrated book / Richard Maxwell.