Devereux / Unknown Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6170-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

This is the first book to focus on women illustrators in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It features critical essays by an international group of scholars on fourteen women illustrators from Britain, Canada and the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Devereux, Joanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Comics & Cartoons (Design)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttechniken & Prinzipien
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Typographie, Illustrationskunst, Werbegraphik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Jo Devereux
Part I: Natural history illustration, 1855–90
1 Jemima Blackburn ‘believed in nothing’: horror, religion, and animal illustration – Bethan Stevens
2 Eleanor Vere Boyle’s ‘fantaisies’ and enchanted gardens – Laurence Talairach
3 I ‘wander and wonder and paint’: the botanical illustrations of Marianne North – Nancy V. Workman
Part II: Book illustration, cartoons, and caricature, 1859–1901
4 The ABCs of Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon: new views on her manuscript, ‘An Illustrated Comic Alphabet’ – Margo L. Beggs
5 ‘A genuine talent’: Mary Ellen Edwards – Simon Cooke
6 From London Society to The British Workwoman: Edith Hume’s journey to religious domestic illustration via Katwijk and Scheveningen beaches – Deborah Canavan
7 ‘This woman who predominated in all things’: Alice Barber Stephens’s drawings of Dorothea in George Eliot’s Middlemarch, 1899 – Nancy Marck Cantwell
8 Florence and Adelaide Claxton: frames, doorways, and domestic satire – Jo Devereux
9 Marie Duval: the methods and politics of attribution – Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, and Julian Waite
Part III: Illustration at the fin de siècle, 1890–1908
10 Romance fiction, folk tales, and poetry: Amy Sawyer and the Arts and Crafts movement – Kate Holterhoff
11 Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale as a black-and-white artist – Pamela Gerrish Nunn
12 ‘The great within’: the illustrations of Jessie Marion King for Seven Happy Days – Carey Gibbons
13 Working against ‘that thunderous clamour of the steam press’: Pamela Colman Smith and the art of hand-coloured illustration – Lorraine Janzen Kooistra and Marion Tempest Grant
14 Olive Allen and the graphic nonchalance of the Modern Girl, illustrated – Jaleen Grove
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jo Devereux is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario