Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text: A Case Study in the Victorian Illustrated Novel Contributor(s): Hill, Richard J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472414225 ISBN-13: 9781472414229 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 828.809 |
LCCN: 2016028776 |
Series: Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 234 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text explores the genesis, production and the critical appreciation of the illustrations to the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson is one of the most copied and interpreted authors of the late nineteenth century, especially his novels Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. These interpretations began with the illustration of his texts in their early editions, often with Stevenson's express consent, and this book traces Stevenson's understanding and critical responses to the artists employed to illustrate his texts. In doing so, it attempts to position Stevenson as an important thinker and writer on the subject of illustrated literature, and on the marriage of literature and visual arts, at a moment preceding the dawn of cinema, and the rejection of such popular tropes by modernist writers of the early twentieth century. |