Victorian Illustrated Fiction

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BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Baker, Charles. Bibliography of British Book Illustrators, 1860-1900. Birmingham, England: Birmingham Bookshop, 1978, 186 p.

Lists the illustrations of major artists of the last half of the nineteenth century, including works published anonymously.

Olmsted, John Charles, and Jeffrey Egan Welch. Victorian Novel Illustration: A Selected Checklist, 1900-1976. New York: Garland, 1979, 124 p.

Catalogues twentieth-century scholarship on the topic of illustrated fiction in the nineteenth century.

CRITICISM

Bogardus, Ralph F. Pictures and Texts: Henry James, A. L. Coburn, and New Ways of Seeing in Literary Culture. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1984, 249 p.

Discusses James's changing views on illustration, with special attention to photography.

Buchanan-Brown, John. The Illustrations of William Makepeace Thackeray. North Pomfret, Vt: David & Charles, 1979, 192 p.

Collects all of Thackeray's major illustrations; a biographical introduction focuses on Thackeray's struggles with technique and his inconsistency.

———. The Book Illustrations of George Cruikshank. Rutland, Vt: Charles E. Tuttle, 1980, 256 p.

Collects all of Cruikshank's major illustrations; includes a short biography and discussion of Cruikshank's authorial partners.

Cohen, Jane R. Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1980, 295 p.

Reviews the importance of illustration to Dickens and his relationships with his many different illustrators.

Dalziel, Pamela. “‘She Matched His Violence with Her Own Wild Passion’: Illustrating Far from the Madding Crowd.” In Reading Thomas Hardy, edited by Charles P. C. Pettit, pp. 1-32. New York: St. Martin's Press: 1998.

Argues that the sensationalism of the illustrations for Hardy's novel is nearly a misinterpretation of the work.

Dimock, George. “Childhood's End: Lewis Carroll and the Image of the Rat.” Word and Image 8, no. 3 (1992): 183-205.

Applies the Freudian case of the Rat Man to reading the character of Alice and discusses Carroll's photographs of young girls.

Gneiting, Teona Tone. “The Pencil's Role in Vanity Fair.Huntington Library Quarterly 39 (1976): 171-202.

Suggests that Thackeray's illustrations not only are essential to interpreting the text but also are part of his effort to mock the genre of the domestic novel itself.

Goldman, Paul. Victorian Illustration: The Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School, and the High Victorians. Brookfield, Vt.: Scolar, 1996, 391 p.

Begins with illustration after 1850, discussing the varying attitudes toward illustration as an art form.

Hall, N. John. “John Everett Millais.” In Trollope and His Illustrators, pp. 8-88. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980.

Reviews Millais' career as an illustrator for Trollope, concluding that Trollope and Millais were well-matched in their artistic realism, which was characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelite style, and in their intense attention to detail.

Hancher, Michael. “Carroll and Tenniel in Collaboration.” In The Tenniel Illustrations to the “Alice” Books, pp. 100-106. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1985.

Details the tension between illustrator Tenniel and author Carroll.

Hodnett, Edward. “The Nineteenth Century, Parts I, II, and III.” In Five Centuries of English Book Illustration, pp. 102-224. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1988.

Provides brief biographies of major illustrators and engravers of the nineteenth century and describes their importance; includes numerous illustrations.

Kelly, Dawn P. “Image and Effigy: The Illustrations in The Old Curiosity Shop.” In Imagination on a Long Rein: English Literature Illustrated, edited by Joachim Moller, pp. 136-47. Marburg: Jonas, 1988.

Discusses the illustrations as commentary on the novel, arguing that Browne's depictions of Nell and Quilip help the reader better sense the dynamics between the characters.

Lull, Janis. “The Appliances of Art: The Carroll-Tenniel Collaboration in Through the Looking Glass.” In Lewis Carroll: A Celebration, edited by Edward Gulliano, pp. 101-111. New York: Potter, 1982.

Focuses on the character of the White Knight to demonstrate the effective synthesis of word and image.

Meisel, Martin. Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983, 471 p.

Examines the intertwined relations of textual, visual, and dramatic art in the nineteenth century.

Muir, Percy H. Victorian Illustrated Books. London: Batsford Press, 1971, 287 p.

Gives a history of the development of the art and technology of publishing illustrated books.

Patten, Robert L. “The Politics of Cruikshank's Graphic Humor.” In Book Illustrated: Text, Image, Culture, 1770-1930, edited by Catherine J. Golden, pp. 83-116. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000.

Discusses works of Cruikshank's not created for novels, particularly satirical images of political figures, and the challenges of discerning Cruikshank's political bent solely from his drawings.

Ray, Gordon N. The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, 336 p.

Focuses on issues of book collecting and the art of book printing; includes essays on engraving techniques, other methods of illustration, and specific illustrators.

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