{"product_id":"illustrating-the-victorian-supernatural-9780821426524","title":"Illustrating the Victorian Supernatural","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA detailed study of Victorian supernaturalism in book and magazine illustrations and cartoons \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIllustrating the Victorian Supernatural \u003c\/i\u003eexplores written and visual texts through which the original Victorian readership encountered and navigated their experience of supernaturalism. Looking across the nineteenth century, Simon Cooke investigates illustrative responses to well-known texts by writers such as Charles Dickens and Henry James while also examining responses to less familiar ghost stories by female authors such as M. E. Braddon and Amelia Edwards. The mix of familiar and unfamiliar carries forward into the selection of artists, both those in the mainstream--John Leech, George Cruikshank, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais--and others whose names are lost to modern readers and whose work deserves to be better known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe study addresses two main questions: how illustration responded to key literary texts and how graphic designs related to contemporary contexts of race, gender, and class and to the workings of the supernatural itself. The first chapter focuses on satirical writings about ghosts and ghostliness and the various ways illustrators depicted that mockery. Chapter 2 traces artistic responses to Dickens's writing of the supernatural as a mode of psychological investigation. Chapter 3 looks at class and gender and the problematic practice of male artists illustrating female-authored ghost stories. The fourth chapter examines satirical cartoons' deployment of supernatural imagery to anatomize issues of imperialism and race. Finally, chapter 5 examines how neo-Victorian artists have revisited the classic texts and taken up the themes established by their forebears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. \u003cb\u003eSimon Cooke\u003c\/b\u003e is an authority on Victorian illustration and has published widely in the field. His books include \u003ci\u003eIllustrated Periodicals of the 1860s\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Moxon Tennyson: A Landmark in Victorian Illustration\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a senior editor on the Victorian Web and the editor of \u003ci\u003eIllustration \u003c\/i\u003emagazine.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623790969106,"sku":"9780821426524","price":87.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77c02988-2a61-4e56-892b-3b01304d3699.jpg?v=1758646579","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/illustrating-the-victorian-supernatural-9780821426524","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}