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Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture is the first book-length study of the original illustrator of Dickens's Pickwick Papers. Discussion of the range and importance of Seymour's work as a jobbing illustrator in the 1820s and 1830s is at the centre of the book. A bibliographical study of his prolific output of illustrations in many different print genres is combined with a wide-ranging account of his major publications. Seymour's extended work for The Comic Magazine, New Readings of Old Authors and Humorous Sketches, all described in detail, are of particular importance in locating the dialogue between image and text at the moment when the Victorian illustrated novel was coming into being.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Getting to know Seymour
Chapter 2. Seymour and the publishers
Chapter 3. Social satires: the march of intellect and other social transformations
Chapter 4. The Comic Magazine (1832–1834)
Chapter 5. New Readings of Old Authors (1832–1834)
Chapter 6. The Humorous Sketches and their Victorian afterlife
Chapter 7. Coda: reading Pickwick through Seymour
Appendix 1 – Chronological listing of titles of books, periodials and sequences of prints illustrated by Robert Seymour
Appendix 2 - A chronological list of the main editions of Seymour’s Sketches
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Brian Maidment is Emeritus Professor of the History of Print in the English Department at Liverpool John Moores University and an ex-president of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. His books include The Poorhouse Fugitives (1987), Reading Popular Prints (1996), Dusty Bob: A Cultural History of Dustmen (2007) and Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order 1820–1850 (2013). He is currently completing a book on magazine illustration between 1820 and 1840.
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Robert Seymour and Nineteenth Century Print Culture is the first book length study of the original illustrator of Dickens’s Pickwick Papers.
