The Victorians Were Image Obsessed. The middle decades of the
nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture
industry. Technological advances enabled the Victorians to adorn
with images the pages of their books and the walls of their homes.
But this was not a wholly visual culture. Pictorial Victorians
focuses on two of the most popular mid-nineteenth-century
genres--illustration and narrative painting--that blurred the line
between the visual and textual. Illustration negotiated text and
image on the printed page, while narrative painting juxtaposed the
two media in its formulation of pictorial stories. Author Julia
Thomas reassesses mid-nineteenth-century values in the light of
this interplay. The dialogue between word and image generates
meanings that are intimately related to the Victorians' image of
themselves. Illustrations in Victorian publications and the
narrative scenes that lined the walls of the Royal Academy reveal
the Victorians' ideas about the world in which they lived and their
notions of gender, class, and race. Pictorial Victorians surveys a
range of material, from representations of the crinoline, to the
illustrations that accompanied Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle
Tom's Cabin and Tennyson's poetry, to paintings of adultery. It
demonstrates that the space between text and image is one in which
values are both constructed and questioned.
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