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The Portrait and the Book - The Invention of the Illustrated Book in Early America (Paperback)
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The Portrait and the Book - The Invention of the Illustrated Book in Early America (Paperback)
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In the nineteenth century, new image-making methods like steel
engraving and lithography caused a surge in the publication of
illustrated books in the United States. Yet even before the
widespread use of these technologies, Americans had already
established the illustrated book format as central to the nation's
literary culture. In The Portrait and the Book, Megan Walsh argues
that colonial-era author portraits, such as Benjamin Franklin's and
Phillis Wheatley's frontispieces; political portraits that
circulated during the debates over the Constitution, such as those
of the Founders by Charles Willson Peale; and portraits of beloved
fictional characters in the 1790s, such as those of Samuel
Richardson's heroine Pamela, shaped readers' conceptions of
American literature. Illustrations played a key role in American
literary culture despite the fact there was little demand for books
by American writers. Indeed, most of the illustrated books bought,
sold, and shared by Americans were either imported British works or
reprinted versions of those imported editions. As a result, in
addition to embellishing books, illustrations provided readers with
crucial information about the country's status as a former colony.
Through an examination of readers' portrait-collecting habits,
writers' employment of ekphrasis, printers' efforts to secure
American-made illustrations for periodicals, and engravers'
reproductions of British book illustrations, Walsh uncovers in late
eighteenth-century America a dynamic but forgotten visual culture
that was inextricably tied to the printing industry and to the
early US literary imagination.
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