Eighteenth-Century Illustration and Literary Material Culture

Richardson, Thomson, Defoe

Bibliographic Data

ID5844883
AuthorsSandro Jung (0000-0002-2241-2319, corresponding author)
Year2023
Publication date2023-05-23
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueEighteenth-Century Illustration and Literary Material Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108973557
OpenAlexW4377232210
Open LibraryOL48180692M
ISBN9781108973557
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited43

This Element studies eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century instances of transmediation, concentrating on how the same illustrations were adapted for new media and how they generated novel media constellations and meanings for these images. Focusing on the 'content' of the illustrations and its adaptation within the framework of a new medium, case studies examine the use across different media of illustrations (comprehending both the designs for book illustrations and furniture prints) of three eighteenth-century works: Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), Thomson's The Seasons (1730) and Richardson's Pamela (1740). These case studies reveal how visually enhanced material culture not only makes present the literary work, including its characters and story-world. But they also demonstrate how, through processes of transmediation, changes are introduced to the illustration that affect comprehension of that work. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Language and languages

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