Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination
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Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination

  1. 402 pages
  2. English
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Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination

About this book

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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

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Yes, you can access Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination by Carol T. Christ, John O. Jordan, Carol T. Christ,John O. Jordan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & English Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Contributors
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. Were They Having Fun Yet? Victorian Optical Gadgetry, Modernist Selves
  9. Shared Lines Pen und Pencil as Trace
  10. Image versus Text in the Illustrated Novels of William Makepeace Thackeray
  11. “The Right Thing in the Right Place” P H. Emerson and the Picturesque Photograph
  12. Dust Piles and Damp Pavements Excrement, Repression, and the Victorian City in Photography and Literature
  13. Making Darkness Visible Capturing the Criminal and Observing the Law in Victorian Photography and Detective Fiction
  14. Victoria’s Sovereign Obedience Portraits of the Queen as Wife and Mother
  15. The Author as Spectacle and Commodity Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Thomas Hardy
  16. The Hero as Spectacle Carlyle and the Persistence ofDandyism
  17. Street Figures Victorian Urban Iconography
  18. Seeing the Unseen Pictorial Problematics and Victorian Images of Class, Poverty, and Urban Life
  19. John Millais’s Children Faith and Erotics: The Woodman’s Daughter (1851) children and their subjectivity that can be seen to have world-historical resonance.
  20. Seeing Is Believing in Enoch Arden
  21. Spectacular Sympathy Visuality and Ideology in Dickenses A Christmas Carol
  22. Reading Figures The Legible Image of Victorian Textuality
  23. Index