Pictorial Victorians : the inscription of values in word and image / Julia Thomas.
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ohio University Press,
©2004.
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| Summary: | "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. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 203 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 082144137X 9780821441374 0821415913 9780821415917 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |