1st Edition
Illustration in Fin-de-Siècle Transatlantic Romance Fiction
By Kate Holterhoff
Copyright 2022
210 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines illustrations created to accompany fictions written by several of the most popular authors published in Britain and America between 1885 and 1920.
By studying the lavish illustrations that complemented not only initial serializations, but also subsequent publications of fictions by H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, James De Mille, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. G. Wells,... Read more
Introduction 1. Picturing the Past in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Historical Romances 2. From Visual Irony to Caricature: Expressive Animals in Rudyard Kipling’s Children’s Fiction 3. Desiring African Women in H. Rider Haggard’s Adventure Fiction 4. Picturing Machines in H. G. Wells’s Scientific Romances 5. A Cannibal Vision: Horror, Harper’s Weekly, and James De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Biography
Kate Holterhoff received her doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University and is currently an Affiliated Researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
