The portrait and the book illustration & literary culture in early America

In the nineteenth century, new image-making methods like steel engraving and lithography caused a surge in the publication of illustrated books in the United States. Yet even before the widespread use of these technologies, Americans had already established the illustrated book format as central to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Walsh, Megan (Professor), autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press [2017]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4706268x*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Benjamin Franklin's portraits and colonial printing
  • Phillis Wheatley and the durability of the author portrait
  • Nationalist portraiture, magazines, and political books
  • Picturing the seduction heroine in the United States
  • Gothic portraiture in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Ormond.