Lorraine Janzen Kooistra

Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing (eBook, ePUB)

The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture, 1855-1875

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar LorraineJanzen 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 momentin 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 re-situating 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 everydaylife and consumer culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780821443804
• Artikelnr.: 49741746

Autorenporträt

Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is the author of The Artist as Critic: Bitextuality in Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Books and Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History. She is co-editor of The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts and The Yellow Nineties Online. She teaches at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.