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William Powell Frith

Painting the Victorian Age

By: William Powell Frith,David Trotter

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William Powell Frith

Painting the Victorian Age

By: William Powell Frith,David Trotter

William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of nineteenth-century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd, and they are now icons of their age. Frith’s popularity in his lifetime was unprecedented; on six separate occasions special railings had to be built at the Royal Academy to protect his paintings from an admiring public. Derby Day and The Railway Station are nearly as well known today as a century ago, yet the artist who painted them is now neglected. This book explores Frith's place in the development of Victorian painting: the impact of his unconventional private life on his work, his relationships with Hogarth and Dickens, his influence on popular illustration, the place of costume in his paintings, his female models, his painting materials and practice, and much more. The book makes an important contribution to the literature on art in the Victorian era and to our understanding of the nineteenth century.

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204

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Yale University Press

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0300121903

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9780300121902

Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination

By: William Blake Gerard

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Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination

By: William Blake Gerard

The first full-length and comprehensive study of the illustrations of Sterne's work, this book explores the ability of Sterne's texts to arouse the visual imagination. It helps to explain why editions of his fiction have been illustrated, some profusely: to fulfill the reader's desire, as well as the artist's compulsion, to visualize Sterne's words.Gerard places his subject in a clear and innovative theoretical framework which opens the field to general word and image studies.

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284

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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075465673X

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9780754656739

Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century

By: Laura Morowitz,William Vaughan

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Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century

By: Laura Morowitz,William Vaughan

This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound together in communal production, sharing spiritual and aesthetic aims. Although it is widely acknowledged that this is an unique feature of the period, there has not previously been a separate study of the phenomenon. This collection of essays provides a thorough and wide-ranging exploration of the issue. Situating artistic brotherhoods within their historical context, it offers unique insights into the social, political, economic and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the most celebrated and influential brotherhoods, while also bringing to light lesser-known or forgotten artists. The essays explore the artistic fraternity from a wide variety of perspectives, probing issues of gender, identity, professional practices and artistic formation in Europe and the United States. This book investigates the Nazarenes, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Russian Abramatsova, the Primitifs, the Nabis as well as other leading groups. The book contains a substantial introduction, which establishes the key questions and issues surrounding the phenomena of the artistic brotherhood, including their relation to the larger artistic community, their association with other social and political organizations of the period, and the ways in which mythologies have been built around them in subsequent histories and recollections of the period.

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223

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Routledge

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1351750224

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9781351750226

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V, Volume 1

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Thackeray by their contemporaries

By: Ralph Pite,William Baker,Judith L Fisher,Andrew Gasson,Andrew Maunder

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Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V, Volume 1

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Thackeray by their contemporaries

By: Ralph Pite,William Baker,Judith L Fisher,Andrew Gasson,Andrew Maunder

Considers the reputations and biographical portrayal of three innovative and controversial writers: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Thackeray. These anthologies of contemporary biographical material shed light on the processes at work in the establishment of a public image and a critical reputation.

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336

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Taylor & Francis

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1040128610

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9781040128619

My Autobiography and Reminiscences

By: William Powell Frith

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My Autobiography and Reminiscences

By: William Powell Frith

The celebrated Victorian narrative painter William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was a born raconteur. His two-volume autobiography of 1887 ran to three editions in the same year. The third edition is reissued here, together with its supplementary volume of 1888. Frith was an ideal commentator on his age. He never lost his early interest in literary and historical subjects, and moved in the highest artistic and literary circles. Yet he also saw himself as a man of the people. His most famous works were his 'modern-life' panoramas, Ramsgate Sands (1854), Derby Day (1858) and The Railway Station (1862). Discussing such projects, he reflects on everything from costume to portraiture, art dealers to female artists, and even picture frames. In Volume, 2 Frith discusses his Hogarthian subjects, 'Dickens and his Beard' (the story behind the famous portrait), and his last great crowd scene, A Private View at the Royal Academy (1883).

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Cambridge University Press

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1108051820

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9781108051828

Winslow Homer: American Passage

By: William R. Cross

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Winslow Homer: American Passage

By: William R. Cross

The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and prose—yet whose own story has remained largely untold. In 1860, at the age of twenty-four, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred to metal plates to stamp on paper. One was a scene that Homer saw on a visit to Boston, his hometown. His illustration shows a crowd of abolitionists on the brink of eviction from a church; at their front is Frederick Douglass, declaring “the freedom of all mankind.” Homer, born into the Panic of 1837 and raised in the years before the Civil War, came of age in a nation in crisis. He created multivalent visual tales, both quintessentially American and quietly replete with narrative for and about people of all races and ages. Whether using pencil, watercolor, or, most famously, oil, Homer addressed the hopes and fears of his fellow Americans and invited his viewers into stories embedded with universal, timeless questions of purpose and meaning. Like his contemporaries Twain and Whitman, Homer captured the landscape of a rapidly changing country with an artist’s probing insight. His tale is one of America in all its complexity and contradiction, as he evolved and adapted to the restless spirit of invention transforming his world. In Winslow Homer: American Passage, William R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history. In that life, this Everyman made archetypal images of American culture, endowed with a force of moral urgency through which they speak to all people today. Includes Color Images and Maps

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435

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374603804

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9780374603809

Wilkie Collins's Library

A Reconstruction

By: William Baker

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Wilkie Collins's Library

A Reconstruction

By: William Baker

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is a major British Victorian novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and journalist. He is best known today as the author of ^IThe Moonstone,^R which T.S. Eliot called the first and greatest English detective novel. He has been the subject of two recent biographies, and a revival of interest in his works is now under way. In particular, there is growing concern with his intellectual development, as witnessed by the 1999 publication of his collected letters. This reconstruction of his library offers a thorough analysis of the books he owned and his response to them and thus illuminates Collins as a reader and writer. The book begins with a narrative discussion of the contents of Collins's library and its auction. This introductory essay sheds light on the types of books he owned, his use of those texts in his writings, and the dispersion of his collection in 1890. The bulk of the volume provides annotated entries for each item from his library. Entries include publication and bibliographic information, descriptions from sale catalogs, information about the author of the item, citations of the book or author from Collins's letters, and information on the present location or subsequent history of the item. An appendix catalogs paintings and artwork in Collins's possession at the time of his death.

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210

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313076278

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9780313076275

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 4

The Collected Letters

By: Andrew Gasson,Graham Law,William Baker

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The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 4

The Collected Letters

By: Andrew Gasson,Graham Law,William Baker

The editors have transcribed 2,500 of Wilkie Collins's letters, around 700 of them previously unidentified, and have given them all a full scholarly annotation and context. The letters shed light on the personal life and business activities of this creative Victorian personality.

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417

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Taylor & Francis

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1040245064

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9781040245064

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 1

The Collected Letters

By: Andrew Gasson,Graham Law,William Baker

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The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 1

The Collected Letters

By: Andrew Gasson,Graham Law,William Baker

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Taylor & Francis

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1040245145

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9781040245149

My Autobiography and Reminiscences

Further Reminiscences

By: William Powell Frith

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My Autobiography and Reminiscences

Further Reminiscences

By: William Powell Frith

The celebrated Victorian narrative painter William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was a born raconteur. His two-volume autobiography of 1887 ran to three editions in the same year. The third edition is reissued here, together with its supplementary volume of 1888. Frith was an ideal commentator on his age. He never lost his early interest in literary and historical subjects, and moved in the highest artistic and literary circles. Yet he also saw himself as a man of the people. His most famous works were his 'modern-life' panoramas, Ramsgate Sands (1854), Derby Day (1858) and The Railway Station (1862). Discussing such projects, he reflects on everything from costume to portraiture, art dealers to female artists, and even picture frames. In particular, Volume 3 records the breakdown of the talented Richard Dadd, Frith's admiration for Daniel Maclise, John Tenniel and George du Maurier, and reflections on the vagaries of fashions in art.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108051839

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Screening Charles Dickens

A Survey of Film and Television Adaptations

By: William Farina

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Screening Charles Dickens

A Survey of Film and Television Adaptations

By: William Farina

Among professional storytellers whose works have been adapted for cinematic dramatization, mid-19th century English novelist Charles Dickens stands in a class of his own. In addition to his most well-known works such as A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, which are unrivaled for their sheer number of film adaptations, each of Dickens' other major works have been adapted for the screen multiple times, and many remain accessible for viewing on a variety of platforms. This survey highlights the most popular adaptations of each Dickens book, spanning from the films of the silent era through the 21st century. The survey also includes a critical examination that compares the adaptations to the original texts. An analysis outlines the many connections between the fictional narratives and the novelist's own frequently misunderstood biography.

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244

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McFarland

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1476647860

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9781476647869

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Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination

Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination

Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century

Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V, Volume 1

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V, Volume 1

My Autobiography and Reminiscences

My Autobiography and Reminiscences

Winslow Homer: American Passage

Winslow Homer: American Passage

Wilkie Collins's Library

Wilkie Collins's Library

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 4

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 4

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 1

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 1

My Autobiography and Reminiscences

My Autobiography and Reminiscences

Screening Charles Dickens

Screening Charles Dickens

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