Romanticism and Illustration

Cambridge University Press, 5/16/2019
EAN 9781108425711, ISBN10: 1108425712

Hardcover, 338 pages, 24.8 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

This collection of essays takes a fresh look at the important role of illustration in Romantic literature. The late eighteenth century saw an explosion of illustrated editions of literary classics and the emergence of a new culture of literary art, including the innovative literary galleries. The impact of these developments on the reading and viewing of literary texts is explored in a series of case studies covering poetry, historical texts, drama, painting, reproductive prints, magazines and ephemera. Romanticism and Illustration argues for a more detailed study of illustration which includes the context of a wider circulation of images across different media. The modern understanding of the word 'illustration' fails to convey the complex relationship between the artist, the engraver, the publisher, the text and the audience in Romantic Britain. In teasing out the implications of this dynamic cultural matrix, this book opens up a new field of Romantic studies.

Editors' Introduction
Part I. Illustrating Poetry
1. The ends of illustration
explanation, critique, and the political imagination in Blake's title-pages for Genesis Peter Otto
2. With a master's hand and Prophet's fire
Blake, Gray, and the Bard Sophie Thomas
3. Seeing history
illustration, poetic drama, and the national past Dustin Frazier Wood
4. 'Fuseli's poetic eye'
prints and impressions in Fuseli and Erasmus Darwin Martin Priestman
5. Henry Fuseli's accommodations
'attempting the domestic' in the illustrations to Cowper Susan Matthews
6. Reading the romantic vignette: Stothard illustrates Bloomfield, Byron and Crabbe for the Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas Sandro Jung
7. Intimate distance
Thomas Stothard's and J. M. W. Turner's iIllustrations of Samuel Rogers's Italy Maureen McCue
Part II. The Business of Illustration
8. Illustration, terror and female agency
Thomas Macklin's poets gallery in a revolutionary decade Ian Haywood
9. Maria Cosway's Hours
cosmopolitan and classical visual culture in Thomas Macklin's Poets Gallery Luisa Calè
10. Artists' street
Thomas Stothard, R. H. Cromek, and literary illustration on London's Newman Street Mary L. Shannon
11. The development of magazine illustration in Regency Britain – the example of Arliss's Pocket Magazine 1818–1833 Brian Maidment
Coda
romantic illustration and the privatization of history painting Martin Myrone.