Hardy's Illustrated Fiction

Name: Hardy's Illustrated Fiction
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ISBN: 9783843393805

ISBN-10: 384339380X

ISBN-13: 9783843393805

Edition: N/A

Authors: Philip Allingham

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At this late date we shall probably never fully understand how the Victorians read the illustrations that accompanied so much of popular fiction upon its initial appearance, that is, in the many illustrated periodicals that sprang up about 1860 and gradually declined in number and quality in the 1890s as a consequence of cheaper paper, public libraries, and a better educated reading public (probably resulting from the General Education Act of 1870). What effect did such pictures have upon the process of creative visualisation that every reader, no matter how capable or inept, experiences from the very first picture-book he or she encounters as a child? We shall never know, although, through…

Book details

List price: $111.00
Publisher: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Company KG
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English