The Victorians and the Visual Imagination

The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
Title The Victorians and the Visual Imagination PDF eBook
Author Kate Flint
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 450
Release 2000-08-28
Genre Art
ISBN 9780521770262

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Richly illustrated study drawing on art, literature and science to explore Victorian attitudes towards sight.

Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination

Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination
Title Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination PDF eBook
Author Carol T. Christ
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 402
Release 2024-03-29
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0520311167

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Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imagination, the role of photography in changing the conception of evidence and truth, the changing partnership between illustrator and novelist, and the ways in which literary texts represent the visual. Together they begin to construct a history of seeing in the Victorian period. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

Oceania and the Victorian Imagination

Oceania and the Victorian Imagination
Title Oceania and the Victorian Imagination PDF eBook
Author Professor Peter H Hoffenberg
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 399
Release 2013-04-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 147240470X

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Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was central to the Pacific’s effects, as youthful encounters at exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.

The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror

The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror
Title The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror PDF eBook
Author Simon Joyce
Publisher Ohio University Press
Pages 225
Release 2007
Genre Authors, English
ISBN 0821417614

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Simon Joyce examines heritage culture, contemporary politics, and the "neo-Dickensian" novel to offer a more affirmative assessment of the Victorian legacy, one that lets us imagine a model of social interconnection and interdependence that has come under threat in today's politics and culture.

Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination

Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination
Title Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination PDF eBook
Author Stuart Sillars
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 337
Release 2015-08-06
Genre Art
ISBN 1107029953

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A fully illustrated study of Shakespeare's awareness of traditions in visual art and their presence in his plays and poems.

Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination

Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination
Title Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination PDF eBook
Author Carol T. Christ
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 410
Release 1995-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780520200227

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"Looks freshly at facts that have remained marginal to most critics' sense of the literature--the sheer mechanism of artistic and literary reproductions. These essays make an unusual, various, and interesting collection, with appeal to a great many constituencies."--George Levine, author of Darwin and the Novelists "This is an exciting collection linked by a series of contemporary critical assumptions and Victorian concerns. . . . For all their reconsideration of theory, the essays are written in a lively, jargon-free style that should give them popular as well as scholarly appeal."--Carole Silver, coeditor of Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris

The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries

The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries
Title The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries PDF eBook
Author Hugh Dunthorne
Publisher BRILL
Pages 291
Release 2012-11-01
Genre History
ISBN 9004233792

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The 19th century laid the foundations of history, both professional and popular. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium, unearthing the ways in which history was conceived and then utilized, usually for nationalistic purposes.