| Description |
xxix, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Carol T. Christ and John O. Jordan -- Were They Having Fun Yet? Victorian Optical Gadgetry, Modernist Selves / Susan R. Horton -- Shared Lines: Pen and Pencil as Trace / Gerard Curtis -- Image versus Text in the Illustrated Novels of William Makepeace Thackeray / Judith L. Fisher -- "The Right Thing in the Right Place": P. H. Emerson and the Picturesque Photograph / Jennifer M. Green -- Dust Piles and Damp Pavements: Excrement, Repression, and the Victorian City in Photography and Literature / Ellen Handy -- Making Darkness Visible: Capturing the Criminal and Observing the Law in Victorian Photography and Detective Fiction / Ronald R. Thomas -- Victoria's Sovereign Obedience: Portraits of the Queen as Wife and Mother / Margaret Homans -- The Author as Spectacle and Commodity: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Thomas Hardy / Linda M. Shires -- The Hero as Spectacle: Carlyle and the Persistence of Dandyism / James Eli Adams |
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Street Figures: Victorian Urban Iconography / Richard L. Stein -- Seeing the Unseen: Pictorial Problematics and Victorian Images of Class, Poverty, and Urban Life / Susan P. Casteras -- John Millais's Children: Faith and Erotics: The Woodman's Daughter (1851) / Robert M. Polhemus -- Seeing Is Believing in Enoch Arden / Miriam Bailin -- Spectacular Sympathy: Visuality and Ideology in Dickens's A Christmas Carol / Audrey Jaffe -- Reading Figures: The Legible Image of Victorian Textuality / Garrett Stewart |
| Analysis |
English literature History, 1837-1900 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online |
| Subject |
Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Art, British -- 19th century.
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Art, British.
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Art, English -- 19th century.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Great Britain.
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English literature -- 19th century -- Illustrations.
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Illustration of books -- Great Britain.
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Visual perception in literature.
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| Author |
Christ, Carol T.
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Jordan, John O.
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| LC no. |
94040328 |
| ISBN |
0520086414 (alk. paper) |
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0520200225 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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