Picturing the Reader - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1788747127 ISBN 13 : 9781788747127

Editeur : Peter Lang, 2022

Synopsis

The long nineteenth century saw a prolific increase in the number of books being produced and read. This collection takes an interdisciplinary approach to readership studies, exploring not only textual sources but also visual culture, revealing what the Victorians thought about reading and its relation to family, gender, leisure pursuits and more.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Beth Palmer is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey. She has published widely on numerous aspects of Victorian popular culture and her work includes a monograph, Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies (2011), an edited collection on readership, print culture and the novel (2011), and an anthology of Victorian sensation plays, Sensation Drama: An Anthology (2019). She is currently working on a project titled Sensational Genres that examines the relationship between the sensation novel, the press and the theatre in Victorian Britain, in which the relationships between Victorian readers and theatre-goers is a central concern.

Amelia Yeates is Associate Professor in Art History at Liverpool Hope University. She has published on a range of topics relating to nineteenth-century visual and literary culture, including representations of women reading, Pre-Raphaelitism and the figure of Pygmalion in nineteenth-century art and literature. Publications include a co-edited collection on Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities (2014) and a guest-edited special issue of Visual Culture in Britain on Visualising Identities: The Male Artist in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2015). In 2019-2020, she was the host of a British Art Network subgroup on «British Genre and Narrative Painting: 1750-1870».

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788747127
• ISBN 13: 9781788747127
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Éditeur: Palmer
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne