The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: The Lure of Illustration....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Illuminated Magazine and the Triumph of Wood Engraving....Pages 17-39
Accurate Dreams or Illustrations of Desire: Image and Text in the Gardener’s Magazine (1826–44) Edited by John Claudius Loudon....Pages 40-59
Alaric ‘Attila’ Watts, the Fraser’s Portrait Gallery, and William Maginn....Pages 60-75
‘The Original to the Life’: Portraiture and the Northern Star....Pages 76-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Man and Dog: Text and Illustration in Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop....Pages 97-118
Elizabeth Gaskell: Journalism and Letters....Pages 119-127
Among the Unknown Public: Household Words, All the Year Round and the Mass-Market Weekly Periodical in the Mid-Nineteenth Century....Pages 128-148
Often Taken Where a Tract Is Refused: T.B. Smithies, the British Workman, and the Popularisation of the Religious and Temperance Message....Pages 149-167
Seductive Visual Studies: Scientific Focus and Editorial Control in The Woman in White and All the Year Round....Pages 168-183
Depicting Gentlemen’s Fashions in the Tailor and Cutter, 1866–1900....Pages 184-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Science and the Timeliness of Reproduced Photographs in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press....Pages 203-219
Aestheticism on the Cheap: Decorative Art, Art Criticism, and Cheap Paper in the 1890s....Pages 220-233
Putting Women in the Boat in the Idler (1892–1898) and TO-DAY (1893–1897)....Pages 234-250
Images of Englishness: The Daily Chronicle and ‘Proposed Laureates’ to Succeed Tennyson....Pages 251-263
Back Matter....Pages 264-279