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Picturing the Reader - Reading and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New edition)
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Picturing the Reader - Reading and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century, 11
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"Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to a range of visual and
textual material, this engaging and illuminating collection compels
twenty-first-century readers to take a fresh look at the multiple
ways in which readers and reading were represented in the long
nineteenth century." (Professor Julia Thomas, Cardiff University)
The long nineteenth century saw a prolific increase in the number
of books being produced and read and, consequently, in the number
of visual and textual discourses about reading. This collection
examines a range of visual and textual iconographies of readers
produced during this period and maps the ways in which such
representations engaged with crucial issues of the time, including
literary value, gender formation, familial relationships, the
pursuit of leisure and the understanding of new technologies.
Gauging the ways in which Victorians conceptualized reading has
often relied on textual sources, but here we recognize and
elaborate the importance of visual culture - often in dialogue with
textual evidence - in shaping the way people read and thought about
reading. This book brings together historians, literary scholars
and art historians using a range of methodologies and theoretical
approaches to address ideas of readership found in fine art,
photography, arts and craft, illustration, novels, diaries and
essays. The volume shows how the field of readership studies can be
enriched and furthered through an interdisciplinary approach and,
in particular, through an exploration of the visual iconography of
readers and reading.
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