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

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 im...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Haywood, Ian, 1958- (Editor), Matthews, Susan, 1955- (Editor), Shannon, Mary L. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:No linguistic content
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Illustration of books > Great Britain > 18th century.
Illustration of books > Great Britain > 19th century.
English literature > Illustrations > History.
Illustrators > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Illustrators > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Romanticism in art.
Romanticism > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Romanticism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English literature > Illustrations.
Illustration of books.
Illustrators.
Romanticism.
Great Britain.
1700-1899
History.
Table of 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.

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