Reading Victorian Illustration, 1855–1875

Paul Goldman is Honorary Professor in the Department of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff University and Associate Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, at the University of London, UK, and Simon Cooke, formerly of Birmingham University, is an independent scholar living in the UK.

Introduction, Paul Goldman, Simon Cooke; Chapter 1 Defining Illustration Studies: Towards a New Academic Discipline, Paul Goldman; Chapter 2 Facsimile Versus White Line: An Anglo-German Disparity, William Vaughan; Chapter 3 A Bitter After-Taste: The Illustrated Gift Book of the 1860s, Simon Cooke; Chapter 4 Happy Endings: Death and Domesticity in Victorian Illustration, Julia Thomas; Chapter 5 Science and Art: Vestiges of Corpses in Pre-Raphaelite Illustrations, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; Chapter 6 'Fleshing out' Time: Ford Madox Brown and the Dalziels' Bible Gallery, Laura MacCulloch; Chapter 7 Making History: Text and Image in Harriet Martineau's Historiettes, Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge; Chapter 8 'Reading the Pictures, Visualizing the Text': Illustrations in Dickens from Pickwick to the Household Edition, 1836 to 1870, Phiz to Fred Barnard, Philip V. Allingham; Chapter 9 'Spoils of the lumber-room': Early Collectors of Wood-Engraved Illustrations from 1860s Periodicals, Robert Meyrick;