Book Illustrated: Text, Image, And Culture 1770-1930; Editor: Golden, Catherine J.; Hardback; Book

Editor: Golden, Catherine J.
Hardback; Book; 13 Colour and 55 B&w Illustrations
344 pages
Published: July 2000
Oak Knoll Press
ISBN: 1584560231
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Leading scholars from the United States and England analyze the rich interplay of illustration with text to exemplify the means by which visual culture evolved. Contained within eight new essays, arranged chronologically, scholars examine the visual insurgence that emerged from 1770-1930 by means of analyzing illustrations from novels, plays, poetry, ballets, and children's books. In addition, these notable scholars examine the impact of book covers and jackets, prints, bindings, papers, title pages, and paintings on American and English readers spanning 160 years.The interaction between text and image, and the reception of images by the reading public are explored here in the context of books produced during the Industrial Revolution. The authors first presented their material as part of a lecture series at Skidmore College, where four of the contributors ar