Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination

University of California Press

ISBN 10: 0520200225 / ISBN 13: 9780520200227

Published by University of California Press, 1995

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Title: Victorian Literature and the Victorian ...

Publisher: University of California Press

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Paperback

Book Condition:Good

Edition: 1St Edition.

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Synopsis:

19th-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the pre-eminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over such topics as the relationship of optical devices to the visual imagination, the role of photography in changing the conception of evidence and truth, the changing partnership between illustrator and novelist, and the ways in which literary texts represent the visual. Together they being to construct a history of seeing in the Victorian period.

About the Author:

Carol T. Christ is Professor of English and The Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Finer Optic (1975) and Victorian and Modern Poetics (1986) and coeditor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. John O. Jordan is Director of the Dickens Project and Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor of Literature in the Marketplace (1995).