Pictorial Victorians
Subtitle: the inscription of values in word and image
By: Julia Thomas.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Illustration of books, Victorian -- Great Britain.; Illustration of books -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; National characteristics in art.
Description: "Pictorial Victorians focuses on two of the most popular mid-nineteenth-century genres - illustration and narrative painting - that blurred the line between the visual and the textual. Illustration negotiated text and image on the printed page, while narrative painting juxtaposed the two media in its formulation of pictorial stories." "Pictorial Victorians surveys a range of material, from representations of the crinoline, to the illustrations that accompanied Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and Tennyson's poetry, to paintings of adultery. It demonstrates that the space between text and image is one in which values are both constructed and questioned."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: War and peace: word and image in mid-Victorian culture; title: Picturing slavery: Uncle Tom's cabin and its early illustrations; title: Pictures, poems, politics: illustrating Tennyson; title: Crinolineomania: Punch's female malady; title: Nation and narration: the Englishness of Victorian narrative painting; title: Tale of two stories: Joseph Noel Paton's in memoriam; title: Telling tales: adultery and maternity in past and present.