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Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing - The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture, 1855-1875

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is the author of The Artist as Critic: Bitextuality in Fin-de-Siecle Illustrated Books and Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History. She is co-editor of The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts and The Yellow Nineties Online. She teaches at Ryerson University! Toronto! Canada." Klappentext In "Poetry! Pictures! and Popular Publishing" eminent Rossetti scholar Lorraine Janzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on "drawing-room books" as both material objects and historical events! Kooistra reveals how the gift book's visual/verbal form mediated "high" and popular art as well as book and periodical publication. Zusammenfassung Demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on "drawing-room books" as both material objects and historical events, this book reveals how the gift book's visual/verbal form mediated "high" and popular art as well as book and periodical publication.

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Authors Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Publisher University of ohio press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 15.06.2011
 
EAN 9780821419649
ISBN 978-0-8214-1964-9
No. of pages 305
Dimensions 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
Series Series in Victorian Studies
Series in Victorian Studies
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism

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