Poetry, pictures, and popular publishing : the illustrated gift book and Victorian visual culture, 1855-1875 / Lorraine Janzen Kooistra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janzen Kooistra, Lorraine, 1953-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gift books--Publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Gift books.

Illustration of books, Victorian--Great Britain.

Illustration of books, Victorian.

English poetry--Illustrations.

English poetry.

Gift books--Publishing.

History.

Great Britain.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Art and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Art and literature.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Books and reading.

Physical Description:

xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2011]

Summary:

"In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar Lorraine Janzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on "drawing-room books" as both material objects and historical events, Kooistra reveals how the gift book's visual/verbal form mediated "high" and popular art as well as book and periodical publication. A composite text produced by many makers, the poetic gift book was designed for domestic space and a female audience; its mode of publication marks a significant moment in the history of authorship, reading, and publishing. With rigorous attention to the gift book's aesthetic and ideological features, Kooistra analyzes the contributions of poets, artists, engravers, publishers, and readers and shows how its material form moved poetry into popular culture. Drawing on archival and periodical research, she offers new readings of Eliza Cook, Adelaide Procter, and Jean Ingelow and shows the transatlantic reach of their verses. Boldly re-situating Tennyson's works within the gift-book economy he dominated, Kooistra demonstrates how the conditions of corporate authorship shaped the production and reception of the laureate's verses at the peak of his popularity. Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing changes the map of poetry's place--in all its senses--in Victorian everyday life and consumer culture"-- Provided by publisher.

"Poetry, Picture, and Popular Publishing demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian Illustrated gift book. Kooistra reveals how the gift book's visual/verbal form mediated "high" and popular art as well as book and periodical publication. A composite text produced by many makers, the poetic gift book was designed for domestic space and a female audience. With rigorous attention to the gift book's aesthetic and ideological features, Kooistra analyzes the contributions of poets, artists, engravers, publishers, and readers and shows how its material form moved poetry into popular culture. Drawing on archival and periodical research, she offers new readings of Eliza Cook, Adelaide Procter, and Jean Ingelow and shows the transatlantic reach of their verses. Boldly resituating Tennyson's works within the gift-book economy he dominated, Kooistra demonstrates how the conditions of corporate authorship shaped the production and reception of the laureate's verses at the peak of his popularity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Reading the Christmas Gift Book 11

2 The Moxon Tennyson, Pre-Raphaelite Art, and Victorian Visual Culture 34

3 The Dalziel Brothers' Fine Art Book and the Mass Production of Culture 79

4 Second-Rate Poets for Second-Rate Readers 127

5 Poet and Publishers Tennyson and the Image 178.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780821419649

0821419641

OCLC:

694395349