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author portraiture
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bibliomania research
British library
British Museum Reading Room
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Disembodied Hand
Edward III
Elementary Art Education
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Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown's Work
Frith's Image
graphic illustration studies
Hand Set
literary materiality
Martin Chuzzlewit
Miss La Creevy
narrative painting analysis
Nicholas Nickleby
Nicolas Barker
Nineteenth Century Literary Culture
Original Serial Issues
Penny Illustrated Paper
Pith Helmet
Ramsgate Sands
Sister Arts' tradition
Victorian literature
Victorian print culture
Vincent Van Gogh
visual words
visual-verbal communication in nineteenth century
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367194895
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First Published in 2002, Visual Words provides a unique and interdisciplinary evaluation of the relationship between images and words in this period.Victorian England witnessed a remarkable growth in literacy culminating in the new literary nationalism that emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Each chapter explores a different aspect of this relationship: the role of Dickens as the heroic author, the book as an iconic object, the growing graphic presence of the text, the role of the graphic trace, the ’Sister Arts/ pen and pencil’ tradition, and the competition between image and word as systems of communication. Examining the impact of such diverse areas as advertising, graphic illustration, narrative painting, frontispiece portraits, bibliomania, and the merchandising of literary culture, Visual Words shows that the influence of the ’Sister Arts’ tradition was more widespread and complex than has previously been considered. Whether discussing portraits of authors, the uses of iconography in Ford Madox Brown’s painting Work, or examining why the British Library was equipped with false bookcases for doors, Gerard Curtis looks at artistic and literary culture from an art historical and ’object’ perspective to gain a better understanding of why some Victorians called their culture ’hieroglyphic’.
Gerard Curtis is Associate Professor of Art History in the Programme of Visual Arts at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
