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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826120603321

Titolo

Book illustration in the long eighteenth century : reconfiguring the visual periphery of the text / / edited by Christina Ionescu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars, , 2011

ISBN

1-4438-7309-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (620 p.)

Disciplina

701.04

Soggetti

Illustration of books - Europe - 18th century

Art and literature - Europe - History - 18th century

European literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART I""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""CHAPTER FOUR""; ""PART II""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""CHAPTER SIX""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT""; ""PART III""; ""CHAPTER NINE""; ""CHAPTER TEN""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE""; ""PART IV""; ""CHAPTER THIRTEEN""; ""CHAPTER FOURTEEN""; ""CHAPTER FIFTEEN""; ""CHAPTER SIXTEEN""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""

Sommario/riassunto

Hitherto relegated to the closets of art history and literary studies, book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. The chapters of this collection offer only a glimpse of where a complete reconfiguration of the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts might ultimately take us. The use of the gerund of the verb ""to reconfigure"" in the subtitle of this collection, instead of the corresponding noun, underlines the work-in-progress character of this interdisciplinary endeavour, which aims above all to discern new vistas while charting or revisiting landmarks in the rich field of ei