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

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (620 p.)
• Disciplina: 701.04
• Soggetto topico: Illustration of books - Europe - 18th century; Art and literature - Europe - History - 18th century; European literature - 18th century - History and criticism
• Persona (resp. second.): IonescuChristina
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Book illustration in the long eighteenth century
• ISBN: 1-4438-7309-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787600703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II