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Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination [electronic resource] / edited by Carol T. Christ and John O. Jordan.
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INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination [electronic resource] / edited by Carol T. Christ and John O. Jordan.
Publication Date:
1995
ISBN:
9780585116488
9780520086418
9780520200227
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Were they having fun yet? : Victorian optical gadgetry, modernist selves / Shared lines : pen and pencil as trace / Image versus text in the illustrated novels of William Makepeace Thackeray / "The right thing in the right place" : P.H. Emerson and the picturesque photograph / Dust piles and damp pavements : excrement, repression, and the Victorian city in photography and literature / Making darkness visible : capturing the criminal and observing the law in Victorian photography and detective fiction / Victoria's sovereign obedience : portraits of the Queen as wife and mother / The hero as spectacle : Carlyle and the persistence of dandyism / Street figures : Victorian urban iconography / Seeing the unseen : pictorial problematics and Victorian images of class, poverty, and urban life / John Millais's children : faith and erotics: The Woodman's daughter (1851) / Seeing is believing in Enoch Arden / Spectacular sympathy : visuality and ideology in Dicken's A Christmas carol / Reading figures : the legible image of Victorian textuality
Abstract:
Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imagination, the role of photography in changing the conception of evidence and truth, the changing partnership between illustrator and novelist, and the ways in which literary texts represent the visual. Together they begin to construct a history of seeing in the Victorian period.--Publisher's description.
Content Type:
text
Carrier Type:
online resource
Language:
English
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