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The Victorians were image obsessed. The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture industry. Technological advances enabled the Victorians to adorn with images the pages of their books and the walls of their homes. But this was not a wholly visual culture.

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“With a keen eye for significant detail, the author proves herself a meticulous, sensitive, circumspect, and convincing reader of the pictures she treats and of their relation to the texts or cultural phenomena they illustrate.” * author of Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery *

Pictorial Victorians The Inscription of Values

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      Publisher: Ohio University Press
      Publication Date: 11/10/2004
      ISBN13: 9780821415917, 978-0821415917
      ISBN10: 0821415913
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Victorians were image obsessed. The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture industry. Technological advances enabled the Victorians to adorn with images the pages of their books and the walls of their homes. But this was not a wholly visual culture.

      Trade Review
      “With a keen eye for significant detail, the author proves herself a meticulous, sensitive, circumspect, and convincing reader of the pictures she treats and of their relation to the texts or cultural phenomena they illustrate.” * author of Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery *

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