The lure of illustration in the nineteenth century : picture and press

"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."--Jacket Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 10 Notes on Contributors......Page 14 Chronology......Page 17 Introduction: The Lure of Illustration......Page 20 Part I: 1800–1840s: Images in Diverse Textual Environments......Page 34 1 The Illuminated Magazine and the Triumph of Wood Engraving......Page 36 2 Accurate Dreams or Illustrations of Desire: Image and Text in the Gardener’s Magazine (1826–44) Edited by John Claudius Loudon......Page 59 3 Alaric ‘Attila’ Watts, the Fraser’s Portrait Gallery, and William Maginn......Page 79 4 ‘The Original to the Life’: Portraiture and the Northern Star......Page 95 Part II: Mid-Century Graphics: Fiction, Fashion, Labour and Layout......Page 114 5 Man and Dog: Text and Illustration in Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop......Page 116 6 Elizabeth Gaskell: Journalism and Letters......Page 138 7 Among the Unknown Public: Household Words, All the Year Round and the Mass-Market Weekly Periodical in the Mid-Nineteenth Century......Page 147 8 Often Taken Where a Tract Is Refused: T.B. Smithies, the British Workman, and the Popularisation of the Religious and Temperance Message......Page 168 9 Seductive Visual Studies: Scientific Focus and Editorial Control in The Woman in White and All the Year Round......Page 187 10 Depicting Gentlemen’s Fashions in the Tailor and Cutter, 1866–1900......Page 203 Part III: The 1890s: Changing Faces, Changing Technologies......Page 220 11 Science and the Timeliness of Reproduced Photographs in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press......Page 222 12 Aestheticism on the Cheap: Decorative Art, Art Criticism, and Cheap Paper in the 1890s......Page 239 13 Putting Women in the Boat in the Idler (1892–1898) and TO-DAY (1893–1897)......Page 253 14 Images of Englishness: The Daily Chronicle and ‘Proposed Laureates’ to Succeed Tennyson......Page 270 Bibliography......Page 283 C......Page 294 H......Page 295 M......Page 296 S......Page 297 Z......Page 298 In its launch number of May 1842 Britain's most successful illustrated weekly newspaper, the Illustrated London News, crowed triumphantly 'For the past ten years we have watched with admiration and enthusiasm the progress of illustrative art, and the vast revolution which it has wrought in the world of publication .To the wonderful march of periodical literature it has given an impetus and rapidity almost coequal with the gigantic power of steam. It has converted blocks into wisdom, and given wings and spirit to ponderous and senseless wood. It has in its turn adorned, gilded, reflected, and interpreted nearly every form of thought'. As the essays in the present volume show the tone was entirely warranted. Design, graphics, illustrations became key to the popularity and, ultimately, survival of nineteenth-century periodicals. The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century collects views and research by eminent experts in the field of Victorian periodicals on some of the most memorable nineteenth-century magazines and newspapers : the Northern Star, the Illuminated Magazine, Tailor and Cutter, the Gardener2s Magazine and Dickens's ventures into editing Household Words and All the Year Round--Résumé de l'éditeur In its launch number of May 1842 Britain's most successful illustrated weekly newspaper, the Illustrated London News, crowed triumphantly 'For the past ten years we have watched with admiration and enthusiasm the progress of illustrative art, and the vast revolution which it has wrought in the world of publication...To the Wonderful march of periodical literature it has given an impetus and rapidity almost coequal with the gigantic power of steam. It has converted blocks into wisdom, and given wings and spirit to ponderous and senseless wood. It has in its turn adorned, gilded, reflected, and interpreted nearly every form of thought's. As the essays in the present volume show the tone was entirely warranted. Design, graphics, illustrations became key to the popularity and, ultimately, survival of nineteenth-century periodicals This collection examines the trajectory of illustrated journalism across the 19th century in newspapers and magazines. It includes a chronology of press illustration to set the context for the essays, and discusses key writers including Wilkie Collins, Dickens and Gaskell