By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott s expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann s exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred to by some scholars as dormant and unproductive, is in fact bursting with "Forget Me Nots, Friendship s Offerings, Keepsakes, " and "Literary Souvenirs." By wrapping literature, poetry, and art into an alluring package, editors and publishers saturated the market with a new, popular, and best-selling genre, the literary annual. In Forget Me Not, KatherineD. Harris assesses the phenomenal rise of the annual...
By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott s expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann s exquisite li...
In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation building. The novel of maturity, she contends, is no less important to our understanding of narrative, Victorian culture, and the possibilities of fiction. Reading works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, John Henry Newman, and Virginia Woolf, Rainof exposes the little-discussed theological underpinnings of plot and situates the novel of maturity in intellectual and religious history,...
In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and qui...
This beautifully presented book contains for the first time the complete series of fifty-three illustrated letters written to his father by Richard Doyle, the precocious boy who would become famous for his Punch drawings ] Their reproduction here in all their elusive detail, scrupulously annotated by the editor, is both pleasurable and educative. Times Literary Supplement
Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard Dicky Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with...
This beautifully presented book contains for the first time the complete series of fifty-three illustrated letters written to his father by Richar...
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture - particularly literary output - through the lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of Victorian studies, Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, have collected contributions from leading thinkers that push New Economic Criticism in new and exciting directions. Spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts an inclusive, global view of the cultural effects of economics and exchange. Contributors use the concept...
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture - particularly literary output - through the lens of economics. ...
Wright s thoroughly original analysis focuses not on narratives of illness, but on narratives of health. Thus reading against the grain, Wright uncovers a hidden history of health and of the novel itself. Pamela K. Gilbert, author of "Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women s Popular Novels"
Wright s thoroughly original analysis focuses not on narratives of illness, but on narratives of health. Thus reading against the grain, Wright uncove...
Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both driving and reflecting the visual culture of its time.
Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social cl...
In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making.
In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how...
