Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination

Description:

Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include 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 begin to construct a history of seeing in the Victorian period.--Publisher's description.

subjects: Visual perception in literature,  Art and literature,  English literature,  History and criticism,  Great Britain,  Modern Art,  Illustrations,  British Art,  Illustration of books,  19th century,  History,  English literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  Art, british,  Victorian Illustration of books,  Littérature anglaise,  Histoire et critique,  Art et littérature,  Histoire,  Illustration des livres,  Perception visuelle dans la littérature,  Art britannique,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh