The Portrait and the Book
Walsh, Megan
| Autor: | Walsh, Megan |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Literature - Classics / Criticism |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 15.05.2017 |
| EAN: | 9781609385026 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 278 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | University of Iowa Press |
| Untertitel: | Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America |
Produktinformationen "The Portrait and the Book"
In The Portrait and the Book, Megan Walsh argues that colonial-era author portraits, such as Benjamin Franklin's and Phillis Wheatley's frontispieces; political portraits that circulated during the debates over the Constitution, such as those of the Founders by Charles Willson Peale; and portraits of beloved fictional characters in the 1790s, such as those of Samuel Richardson's heroine Pamela, shaped readers' conceptions of American literature. Through an examination of readers' portrait-collecting habits, writers' employment of ekphrasis, printers' efforts to secure American-made illustrations for periodicals, and engravers' reproductions of British book illustrations, Walsh uncovers in late eighteenth-century America a dynamic but forgotten visual culture that was inextricably tied to the printing industry and to the early US literary imagination.
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