Romanticism and Illustration

ISBN-13: 9781108425711 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 338 str.

Ian Haywood; Susan Matthews; Mary Shannon

Opis

Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.

Recenzje

'Romanticism and Illustration provides a valuable set of studies … helping us see more clearly the complex production and reception histories of Romantic-era illustrated books in Britain.' Andrew Stauffer, European Romantic Review

Spis treści

Editors' Introduction; Part I. Illustrating Poetry: 1. The ends of illustration: explanation, critique, and the political imagination in Blake's title-pages for Genesis Peter Otto; 2. With a master's hand and Prophet's fire: Blake, Gray, and the Bard Sophie Thomas; 3. Seeing history: illustration, poetic drama, and the national past Dustin Frazier Wood; 4. 'Fuseli's poetic eye': prints and impressions in Fuseli and Erasmus Darwin Martin Priestman; 5. Henry Fuseli's accommodations: 'attempting the domestic' in the illustrations to Cowper Susan Matthews; 6. Reading the romantic vignette: Stothard illustrates Bloomfield, Byron and Crabbe for the Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas Sandro Jung; 7. Intimate distance: Thomas Stothard's and J. M. W. Turner's iIllustrations of Samuel Rogers's Italy Maureen McCue; Part II. The Business of Illustration: 8. Illustration, terror and female agency: Thomas Macklin's poets gallery in a revolutionary decade Ian Haywood; 9. Maria Cosway's Hours: cosmopolitan and classical visual culture in Thomas Macklin's Poets Gallery Luisa Calè; 10. Artists' street: Thomas Stothard, R. H. Cromek, and literary illustration on London's Newman Street Mary L. Shannon; 11. 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.