Edited by Tanya Harrod with contributions by Grey Gowrie, Richard Morphet and Hilary Spurling
Ashgate
Hardback
128
Victorian England witnessed a remarkable growth in literacy culminating in the new literary nationalism that emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Visual Words provides a unique and interdisciplinary evaluation of the relationship between images and words in this period. 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, 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?».
Ashgate
Hardback
128
Victorian England witnessed a remarkable growth in literacy culminating in the new literary nationalism that emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Visual Words provides a unique and interdisciplinary evaluation of the relationship between images and words in this period. 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, 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?».