The Victorian illustrated book / edited by Richard Maxwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maxwell, Richard, 1948-2010.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illustration of books--Great Britain--19th century.

Illustration of books.

Great Britain.

Illustration of books, Victorian--Great Britain.

Illustration of books, Victorian.

Physical Description:

xxx, 440 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813920973

OCLC:

48674519