Reading Victorian Illustration, 1855-1875 Spoils of the Lumber Room - Goldman, Paul (Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012)
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Defining Illustration Studies: Towards a New Academic Discipline; 2 Facsimile Versus White Line: An Anglo-German Disparity; 3 A Bitter After-Taste: The Illustrated Gift Book of the 1860s; 5 Science and Art: Vestiges of Corpses in Pre-Raphaelite Illustrations; 6 'Fleshing out' Time: Ford Madox Brown and the Dalziels' Bible Gallery; 7 Making History: Text and Image in Harriet Martineau's Historiettes
8 'Reading the Pictures, Visualizing the Text': Illustrations in Dickens from Pickwick to the Household Edition, 1836 to 1870, Phiz to Fred Barnard9 'Spoils of the lumber-room': Early Collectors of Wood-Engraved Illustrations from 1860s Periodicals; Works Cited; Index
Re-evaluating the period in Victorian illustration known as 'The Sixties, ' this volume examines figures such as Frederick Sandys, Ford Madox Brown and George John Pinwell to consider the impact of illustration on the act of reading and the sensibilities of the reading public. The collection offers a detailed and provocative analysis of the production, consumption and place of illustration within the broader contexts of mid-Victorian culture
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index