The plot thickens : illustrated Victorian serial fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier /

In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Leighton, Mary Elizabeth, 1971- (Author), Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne), 1963- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
Series:	Series in Victorian Studies.
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Serialized fiction > Great Britain > History and criticism. Illustrated periodicals > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Literature publishing > Great Britain > History > 19th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Material Matters: The Illustrated Victorian Serial
Imagining the Self: Illustration and the Technology of Selfhood in David Copperfield and Cousin Phillis
Picturing the Past: Illustration and the Making of History in The Tower of London, Vanity Fair, and A Tale of Two Cities
Hallowing the Everyday: Illustration and Realism in Wives and Daughters, Mistress and Maid, and The Small House at Allington
Arousing the Nerves: Illustration and Sensation in The Notting Hill Mystery, Griffith Gaunt, and The Law and the Lady
From Peter Ibbetson to Pickwick and Back: The Lives and Afterlives of Illustrated Victorian Serials.