Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination

Resource Information

The work Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination

Statement of responsibility

edited by Carol T. Christ and John O. Jordan

Contributor

• Christ, Carol T
• Jordan, John O

Subject

• Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Art, British -- 19th century
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- 19th century -- Illustrations
• Illustration of books -- 19th century -- Great Britain
• Illustration of books, Victorian -- Great Britain
• Visual perception in literature

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Government publication

government publication level undetermined

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction