The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: The Lure of Illustration

   1. Introduction: The Lure of Illustration

      • Laurel Brake, Marysa Demoor

      Pages 1-13

3. 1800–1840s: Images in Diverse Textual Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. The Illuminated Magazine and the Triumph of Wood Engraving

      • Brian Maidment

      Pages 17-39

   3. Accurate Dreams or Illustrations of Desire: Image and Text in the Gardener’s Magazine (1826–44) Edited by John Claudius Loudon

      • Sarah Dewis

      Pages 40-59

   4. Alaric ‘Attila’ Watts, the Fraser’s Portrait Gallery, and William Maginn

      • David E. Latané Jr.

      Pages 60-75

   5. ‘The Original to the Life’: Portraiture and the Northern Star

      • Malcolm Chase

      Pages 76-93

4. Mid-Century Graphics: Fiction, Fashion, Labour and Layout

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Man and Dog: Text and Illustration in Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop

      • Beryl Gray

      Pages 97-118

   3. Elizabeth Gaskell: Journalism and Letters

      • Joanne Shattock

      Pages 119-127

   4. Among the Unknown Public: Household Words, All the Year Round and the Mass-Market Weekly Periodical in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

      • Lorna Huett

      Pages 128-148

   5. Often Taken Where a Tract Is Refused: T.B. Smithies, the British Workman, and the Popularisation of the Religious and Temperance Message

      • Frank Murray

      Pages 149-167

   6. Seductive Visual Studies: Scientific Focus and Editorial Control in The Woman in White and All the Year Round

      • Laurie Garrison

      Pages 168-183

   7. Depicting Gentlemen’s Fashions in the Tailor and Cutter, 1866–1900

      • Christopher Kent

      Pages 184-200

5. The 1890s: Changing Faces, Changing Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Science and the Timeliness of Reproduced Photographs in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press

      • James Mussell

      Pages 203-219

   3. Aestheticism on the Cheap: Decorative Art, Art Criticism, and Cheap Paper in the 1890s

      • Linda K. Hughes

      Pages 220-233

   4. Putting Women in the Boat in the Idler (1892–1898) and TO-DAY (1893–1897)

      • Anne Humpherys

      Pages 234-250

   5. Images of Englishness: The Daily Chronicle and ‘Proposed Laureates’ to Succeed Tennyson

      • Edward H. Cohen

      Pages 251-263

6. Back Matter

   Pages 264-279

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This volume tackles the subject of illustration, technically, metaphorically and historically in nineteenth-century periodicals, displaying the ubiquity of the visual in the press: the articles cover material illustration, graphics, and design and metaphorical use of images in the letterpress, offering specific examples and theoretical approaches.

• Charles Dickens
• Design
• fiction
• Layout
• British and Irish Literature

• University of London, UK

  Laurel Brake

• Ghent University, Belgium

  Marysa Demoor

• Cambridge, UK

  Marysa Demoor

LAUREL BRAKE is a Senior Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her research interests are in print culture, gender, computing in the humanities, and Walter Pater. Publications include Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (www. ncse.ac.uk) with Jim Mussell, Suzanne Paylor, and Mark Turner (2008) and Print in Transition (2001). With Marysa Demoor, she is currently editing the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism. 
 
MARYSA DEMOOR is Professor of English Literature at Ghent University, Belgium. Her recent publications include Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870-1920 (2000) and Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930 (2004). With Laurel Brake she is currently working on the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.

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