Author: Ruari McLeanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Noah's Ark A.B.C. and 8 Other Victorian Alphabet Books in Color
Author: Ruari McLeanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye
Author: A. Robin HoffmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198938152
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye shows how the familiar genre went beyond mere reading instruction to offer nineteenth-century British writers, illustrators, and publishers a site for representing and re-thinking literacy itself. This interdisciplinary study traces how individuals throughout the Victorian era deployed alphabet books to promote visual literacy or oral culture as a vital complement to textual literacy. Their strategies ranged from puns and political allusions to elaborate designs that addressed adult audiences alongside or even instead of children. As the format became more familiar in the first part of Victoria's reign, George Cruikshank, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry Cole, and Edward Lear were quick to recognize its critical potential. This history pivots around the mid-1860s and 1870s, when the production of illustrated alphabet books exploded thanks to evolving printing technology and national education reform. Case studies of individual works and makers show how a revolution in picture books reflected and responded to laws assuring children's access to schooling. On the one hand, Socialist artist Walter Crane was able to develop alphabetical illustration from a utilitarian mid-century product into an aesthetically rich, yet accessibly priced "education of the eye." On the other hand, Kate Greenaway, Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), and their publishers tended to leverage commercialized nostalgia against pedagogy. This survey concludes by showing how market-oriented trends and the development of photographic reproduction toward the end of the century fed into interpretations of the alphabet, including works by Rudyard Kipling and Hilaire Belloc, that reflected growing ambivalence about industrialized print culture.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1696
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Victorian Ideology and British Children's Literature, 1850-1914
Author: Ann Trugman AckermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1718
Book Description
Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1806
Book Description
The World of the Small Commercial Fishermen
Author: Michael MeltzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description