Picturing the reader : reading and representation in the long nineteenth century / Beth Palmer and Amelia Yeates (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palmer, Beth, 1982- editor.

Yeates, Amelia, editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century ; vol 11.

Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century, 22352287 ; vol 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Books and reading.

Reading in art.

Books and reading in literature.

Photography--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Photography.

Arts and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Arts and society.

Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authors and readers.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

268 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2022]

Summary:

"The long nineteenth century saw a prolific increase in the number of books being produced and read and, consequently, in the number of visual and textual discourses about reading. This collection examines a range of visual and textual iconographies of readers produced during this period and maps the ways in which such representations engaged with crucial issues of the period, including literary value, gender formation, familial relationships, the pursuit of leisure and the understanding of new technologies. Gauging the ways in which Victorians conceptualised reading has often relied on textual sources, but here we recognise and elaborate the importance of visual culture - often in dialogue with textual evidence - in shaping the way people read and thought about reading. This book brings together historians, literary scholars and art historians using a range of methodologies and theoretical approaches to address ideas of readership found in fine art, photography, arts and craft, illustration, novels, diaries and essays. The volume shows how the field of readership studies can be enriched and furthered through an interdisciplinary approach and, in particular, through an exploration of the visual iconography of readers and reading"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Framing the Reader

1. Framing Reading in Mary Watts's Diaries and Designs / Beth Palmer

2. Reading Like a Victorian: How the Book Review Illuminates Viewing as an Essential Part of Reading / Catherine J. Golden

3. Picturing the Poor: Reader Spectatorship, Sympathy and Slumming in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist / Garth Wenman-James

pt. II Visual Representations of Readers

4. Painting the `Woman as Reader': From Romney to Rossetti / Colin Cruise

5. `No Happy Wearing of Beloved Leaves': Women and Not Reading in Nineteenth-Century Art / Amelia Yeates

6. In Search of `Some Bond of Union': Picturing the Domestic Reading Circle in Victorian Photographs / Charlotte Boman

pt. III The Reader in the Text

7. Interrogating the Male Reader in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret / Ashton Foley-Schramm

8. Picturing the Reader in Jane Austen's Novels / Katie Halsey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Picturing the reader

ISBN:

9781788747127

1788747127

OCLC:

1152391243

Publisher Number:

99991332576