Pictorial Victorians : the inscription of values in word and image

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Label

Pictorial Victorians : the inscription of values in word and image

Title remainder

the inscription of values in word and image

Statement of responsibility

Julia Thomas

Creator

• Thomas, Julia, 1971-
• Thomas, Julia, 1971-

Subject

• Illustration of books -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Illustration of books, Victorian -- Great Britain
• National characteristics in art

Language

eng

Summary

This volume surveys a range of visual material from the Victorian Era, from representations of the crinoline, to the illustrations that accompanied Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and Tennyson's poetry, to paintings of adultery. It demonstrates that the space between text and image is one in which values are both constructed and questioned. The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 until her death in 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain. The author examines the dialogue between their words and images, and the meanings that are intimately related to the Victorians' view of themselves. Illustrations in Victorian publications reveal the Victorians' ideas about the world in which they lived and their notions of gender, class, and race

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography