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Author Cooke, Simon (Simon Gareth), author.

Title The Moxon Tennyson a landmark in Victorian illustration / Simon Cooke
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Series in Victorian studies
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: The Making of the Book -- 2: Painting, Time, Light, Landscape -- 3: Englishness, the Modern, Copying from Nature -- 4: Psychology, Dreaming, Medievalism -- 5: Relationships, Gender, Androgyny -- 6: Reception, Influence, Afterlife -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Cooke's analysis of this milestone Victorian publication reveals the fluctuating harmony and dissonance between Tennyson's poems and their illustrations, the technical challenges and occupations involved in its manufacture, its readers' contemporary reception, and its subsequent influence as a variously revered and reviled publication
Subject Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Poems -- Illustrations
Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858.
SUBJECT Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Poems -- Illustrations
Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858 fast
Poems (Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron) fast
Subject Illustration of books -- England -- 19th century
Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 19th century
Authors and publishers -- England -- History -- 19th century
Book design -- England -- History -- 19th century
Printing -- England -- History -- 19th century
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Authors and publishers
Book design
Illustration of books
Literature and society
Literature publishing
Printing
England
Genre/Form History
Illustrated works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821446973
0821446975