Romanticism and illustration / edited by Ian Haywood, Susan Matthews, Mary L. Shannon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haywood, Ian, 1958- editor.

Matthews, Susan, 1955- editor.

Shannon, Mary L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illustration of books--Great Britain--18th century.

Illustration of books.

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

English literature--Illustrations--History.

English literature.

Illustrators--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Illustrators.

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

Romanticism in art.

Romanticism--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Romanticism.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This collection of essays takes a fresh look at the important role of illustration in Romantic literature. The late eighteenth century saw an explosion of illustrated editions of literary classics and the emergence of a new culture of literary art, including the innovative literary galleries. The impact of these developments on the reading and viewing of literary texts is explored in a series of case studies covering poetry, historical texts, drama, painting, reproductive prints, magazines and ephemera. Romanticism and Illustration argues for a more detailed study of illustration which includes the context of a wider circulation of images across different media. The modern understanding of the word 'illustration' fails to convey the complex relationship between the artist, the engraver, the publisher, the text and the audience in Romantic Britain. In teasing out the implications of this dynamic cultural matrix, this book opens up a new field of Romantic studies.

Contents:

The ends of illustration : explanation, critique, and the political imagination in Blake's title-pages for Genesis / Peter Otto

With a master's hand and prophet's fire : Blake, Gray, and the Bard / Sophie Thomas

Seeing history : illustration, poetic drama, and the national past / Dustin Frazier Wood

"Fuseli's poetic eye" : prints and impressions in Fuseli and Erasmus Darwin / Martin Priestman

Henry Fuseli's accommodations : "attempting the domestic" in the illustrations to Cowper / Susan Matthews

Reading the romantic vignette : Stothard illustrates Bloomfield, Byron and Crabbe for the Royal engagement pocket atlas / Sandro Jung

Intimate distance : Thomas Stothard's and J.M.W Turner's illustrations of Samuel Rogers's Italy / Maureen McCue

Illustration, terror and female agency : Thomas Macklin's Poets Gallery in a revolutionary decade / Ian Haywood

Maria Cosway's Hours : cosmopolitan and classical visual culture in Thomas Macklin's Poets Gallery / Luisa Calè

Artists' Street : Thomas Stothard, R.H. Cromek, and literary illustration on London's Newman Street / Mary L. Shannon

The development of magazine illustration in Regency Britain : the example of Arliss's Pocket magazine, 1818-1833 / Brian Maidment

Coda: Romantic illustration and the privatization of history painting / Martin Myrone.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108556637

1108556639

9781108602556

110860255X

9781108348829

1108348823