Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination

Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination
Author: Grace Seiberling
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1986-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780226744988

"This book results from research which was begun with all the casualness, but inherent seriousness, of the nineteenth-century amateur. I had the privilege of frequent access to the archives of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House and began to go through the nineteenth-century photographs in a systematic way. I wanted to go beyond the clichés of the history of photography as a series of often-reproduced masterworks and to find out something about the history of seeing, or at least of thinking about, images in the nineteenth century."--Préface.

The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914

The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914
Author: Gordon Norton Ray
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780486269559

Combines essays, bibliographical descriptions, and 295 illustrations to chronicle a golden era in the art of the illustrated book. Artists range from Blake, Turner, Rowlandson, and Morris to Caldecott, Greenaway, Beardsley, and Rackham.

1945-1978

1945-1978
Author: Maria Witt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 3110975076

Esdaile's Manual of Bibliography

Esdaile's Manual of Bibliography
Author: Roy Bishop Stokes
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780810839229

Designed for the literary student, the student librarian and the beginning book collector, this manual assumes nothing but interest at the outset. In clear language, it serves to take readers to the point at which they are prepared to turn to advanced texts to develop specialized interests.

Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals)

Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Laura Dabundo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 900
Release: 2009-10-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1135232342

First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on ‘the spirit of the age’, the book deals with the aesthetic, scientific, socioeconomic – indeed the human – environment in which the Romantics flourished. The books considers poets, playwrights and novelists; critics, editors and booksellers; painters, patrons and architects; as well as ideas, trends, fads, and conventions, the familiar and the newly discovered. The book will be of use for everyone from undergraduate English students, through to thesis-driven graduate students to teaching faculty and scholars.

Man and the Natural World

Man and the Natural World
Author: Keith Thomas
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1991-09-26
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0141936045

'Man and the Natural World, an encyclopaedic study of man's relationship to animals and plants, is completely engrossing ... It explains everything - why we eat what we do, why we plant this and not that, why we keep pets, why we like some animals and not others, why we kill the things we kill and love the things we love ... It is often a funny book and one to read again and again' Paul Theroux, Sunday Times 'The English historian Keith Thomas has revealed modes of thought and ways of life deeply strange to us' Hilary Mantel, New York Review of Books 'A treasury of unusual historical anecdote ... a delight to read and a pleasure to own' Auberon Waugh, Sunday Telegraph 'A dense and rich work ... the return to the grass roots of our own environmental convictions is made by the most enchantingly minor paths' Ronald Blythe, Guardian