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Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Victorian Gift Book & Visual Culture 1855-1875 | Victorian Studies Series | Perfect for Literature Lovers, History Buffs & Book Collectors
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Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Victorian Gift Book & Visual Culture 1855-1875 | Victorian Studies Series | Perfect for Literature Lovers, History Buffs & Book Collectors Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Victorian Gift Book & Visual Culture 1855-1875 | Victorian Studies Series | Perfect for Literature Lovers, History Buffs & Book Collectors
Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Victorian Gift Book & Visual Culture 1855-1875 | Victorian Studies Series | Perfect for Literature Lovers, History Buffs & Book Collectors
Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Victorian Gift Book & Visual Culture 1855-1875 | Victorian Studies Series | Perfect for Literature Lovers, History Buffs & Book Collectors
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In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar Lorraine Janzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on “drawing-room books” as both material objects and historical events, Kooistra reveals how the gift book’s visual/verbal form mediated “high” and popular art as well as book and periodical publication.A composite text produced by many makers, the poetic gift book was designed for domestic space and a female audience; its mode of publication marks a significant moment in the history of authorship, reading, and publishing. With rigorous attention to the gift book’s aesthetic and ideological features, Kooistra analyzes the contributions of poets, artists, engravers, publishers, and readers and shows how its material form moved poetry into popular culture. Drawing on archival and periodical research, she offers new readings of Eliza Cook, Adelaide Procter, and Jean Ingelow and shows the transatlantic reach of their verses. Boldly resituating Tennyson’s works within the gift-book economy he dominated, Kooistra demonstrates how the conditions of corporate authorship shaped the production and receptionof the laureate’s verses at the peak of his popularity.Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing changes the map of poetry’s place—in all its senses—in Victorian everyday life and consumer culture.
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Of the many books on the subject of the "Sixties Illustrators", this occupies a niche giving due weight to the input of the poets. The emphasis is on the combined efforts of poets and illustrators in the production of Christmas Books in the middle of the nineteenth century.It clearly is the result of a massive amount of time in the author's research of the subject. It cannot be described as a good read. The illustrations are poorly reproduced for a £50.00 book and give little that is likely to impress any reader who is not familiar with the originals. Nevertheless, the author has some unique and interesting things to say on the subject, and will be a useful reference for enthusiasts like me.

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