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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
Chronology......Page 17
Introduction: The Lure of Illustration......Page 20
Part I: 1800–1840s: Images in Diverse Textual Environments......Page 34
1 The Illuminated Magazine and the Triumph of Wood Engraving......Page 36
2 Accurate Dreams or Illustrations of Desire: Image and Text in the Gardener’s Magazine (1826–44) Edited by John Claudius Loudon......Page 59
3 Alaric ‘Attila’ Watts, the Fraser’s Portrait Gallery, and William Maginn......Page 79
4 ‘The Original to the Life’: Portraiture and the Northern Star......Page 95
Part II: Mid-Century Graphics: Fiction, Fashion, Labour and Layout......Page 114
5 Man and Dog: Text and Illustration in Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop......Page 116
6 Elizabeth Gaskell: Journalism and Letters......Page 138
7 Among the Unknown Public: Household Words, All the Year Round and the Mass-Market Weekly Periodical in the Mid-Nineteenth Century......Page 147
8 Often Taken Where a Tract Is Refused: T.B. Smithies, the British Workman, and the Popularisation of the Religious and Temperance Message......Page 168
9 Seductive Visual Studies: Scientific Focus and Editorial Control in The Woman in White and All the Year Round......Page 187
10 Depicting Gentlemen’s Fashions in the Tailor and Cutter, 1866–1900......Page 203
Part III: The 1890s: Changing Faces, Changing Technologies......Page 220
11 Science and the Timeliness of Reproduced Photographs in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press......Page 222
12 Aestheticism on the Cheap: Decorative Art, Art Criticism, and Cheap Paper in the 1890s......Page 239
13 Putting Women in the Boat in the Idler (1892–1898) and TO-DAY (1893–1897)......Page 253
14 Images of Englishness: The Daily Chronicle and ‘Proposed Laureates’ to Succeed Tennyson......Page 270
Bibliography......Page 283
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