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The book provides a major insight into the Victorian age of illustration. The presence of images on the page (from newspapers and magazines to advertisements) was said to impact on whether readers created 'images' in their mind as they read. This book conceptualises this new way of reading and its cultural implications
List of contents
- Introduction: Reading Victorian illustration
- 1: Reading and the mind's eye: Victorian debates about illustration and mental imagery
- 2: Out of order reading: how the Victorians put the pictures first
- 3: Reading for (dis)pleasure
- 4: The networked reading of Victorian illustrations
- 5: Reading and memory: how the Victorians remembered illustrations
- Conclusion: Victorian reading now
About the author
Julia Thomas is Professor of English Literature in Cardiff University, UK, where she specialises in Victorian visual and material culture, word and image, and digital humanities. These areas have come together in work at the forefront of the field of Illustration Studies. Thomas has published widely in these areas, including
Nineteenth-Century Illustration and the Digital (Palgrave, 2017),
Shakespeare's Shrine (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), and
Pictorial Victorians (Ohio University Press, 2004). She has been Principal Investigator on many illustration projects and is Director of the AHRC-funded
Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration and
The Illustration Archive, the largest online resource dedicated to illustration.
Summary
The book provides a major insight into the Victorian age of illustration. The presence of images on the page (from newspapers and magazines to advertisements) was said to impact on whether readers created 'images' in their mind as they read. This book conceptualises this new way of reading and its cultural implications
