The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century

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This volume tackles the subject of illustration, technically, metaphorically and historically in nineteenth-century periodicals, displaying the ubiquity of the visual in the press: the articles cover material illustration, graphics, and design and metaphorical use of images in the letterpress, offering specific examples and theoretical approaches.

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LAUREL BRAKE is a Senior Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her research interests are in print culture, gender, computing in the humanities, and Walter Pater. Publications include <EM>Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition</EM> (www. ncse.ac.uk) with Jim Mussell, Suzanne Paylor, and Mark Turner (2008) and <EM>Print in Transition</EM> (2001). With Marysa Demoor, she is currently editing the <EM>Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism</EM>. <BR>  <BR>MARYSA DEMOOR is Professor of English Literature at Ghent University, Belgium. Her recent publications include <EM>Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870-1920</EM> (2000) and <EM>Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930</EM> (2004). With Laurel Brake she is currently working on the <EM>Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism</EM>. <BR><BR>

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