The Moxon Tennyson : A Landmark in Victorian Illustration (Series in Victorian Studies)

Cooke, Simon

Ohio University Press（2021/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 254 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780821424261
• DDC分類 821.8

Full Description

A new perspective on a book that transformed Victorian illustration into a stand-alone art.

Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Poems dramatically redefined the relationship between images and words in print. Cooke's study, the first book to address the subject in over 120 years, presents a sweeping analysis of the illustrators and the complex and challenging ways in which they interpreted Tennyson's poetry. This book considers the volume's historical context, examining in detail the roles of publisher, engravers, and binding designer, as well as the material difficulties of printing its fine illustrations, which recreate the effects of painting. Arranged thematically and reproducing all the original images, the chapters present a detailed reappraisal of the original volume and the distinctive culture that produced it.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Edition and the Critics
1. The Making of the Book: Contexts, Collaborations, and Clashes
2. Painting, Time, Light, Landscape
3. Englishness, the Modern, Copying from Nature
4. Psychology, Dreaming, Medievalism
5. Relationships, Gender, Androgyny
6. Reception, Influence, Afterlife
Appendix 1. The Illustrator Who Never Was (Lizzie Siddal)
Appendix 2. The Makers of the Moxon Tennyson
Notes
Bibliography
Index