Dynamics of the Pictured Page: Representing the Nation in the "Illustrated London News" (Routledge Revivals)

>Originally published in 1998, Dynamics of the Pictured Page provides a critical study of the world's first regularly illustrated newspaper, the Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram in 1842. Focusing on the first decade of this enormously influential weekly, this book situates the ILN within the publishing history of periodicals, arguing not only for a better understanding of those new modes of production engendered by an illustrated newspaper, but also for the need to theorize the relations between engraved images and printed text that constituted the ILN , which advertised itself as an unprecedented 'marriage' between art and literature. Through a series of interpretive interventions that focus on categories that would have had especially powerful reverberations for Victorian readers (for example, the home, the railway, the public funeral, and serialized literature), this book traces the newspaper's complex strategies of appeal to a middle-class English readership. This book will appeal to students of nineteenth-century literature and history (especially those with an interest in publishing history and the history of the press), as well as to Victorian studies scholars. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 The Nineteenth Century General Editors’ Preface 8 List of Figures 10 Dedication 11 Acknowledgements 12 Introduction 14 1 Political Vision and the Illustrated Text 43 2 Reproducing ‘Art’ and the Division of Labour 64 3 Interiority and Readership 98 4 Representing the Railway 129 5 Domestic Fiction: Maintaining Social Equilibrium 155 6 Death and National Glory 193 Epilogue 217 Bibliography 222 Index 230