Pictorial Victorians: The Inscription of Values in Word and ImageThe Victorians were image obsessed. The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture industry. Technological advances enabled the Victorians to adorn with images the pages of their books and the walls of their homes. But this was not a wholly visual culture. Pictorial Victorians focuses on two of the most popular mid-nineteenth-century genres--illustration and narrative painting--that blurred the line between the visual and textual. |
Contents
Illustrations | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
1 Picturing Slavery | |
2 Pictures Poems Politics | |
3 Crinolieomania | |
4 Nation and Narration | |
5 A Tale of Two Stories | |
6 Telling Tales | |
Afterword and image | |
Notes | |
Common terms and phrases
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Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts Leila Koivunen No preview available - 2008 |