Dynamics of the Pictured Page: Representing the Nation in the "Illustrated London News"

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by  Peter W. Sinnema

Dynamics of the Pictured Page

Dynamics of the Pictured Page
Representing the Nation in the
Illustrated London News
PETER W. SINNEMA
First published 1998 by Ashgate Publishing
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledegments xi
Introduction 1
1 Political Vision and the Illustrated Text 30
2 Reproducing ‘Art’ and the Division of Labour 51
3 Interiority and Readership 85
4 Representing the Railway 116
5 Domestic Fiction: Maintaining Social Equilibrium 142
6 Death and National Glory 180
Epilogue 204
Bibliography 209
Index 217

The Nineteenth Century
General Editors’ Preface
The aim of this series is to reflect, develop and extend the great bur-
geoning of interest in the nineteenth century that has been an inevitable
feature of recent decades, as that former epoch has come more sharply
into focus as a locus for our understanding not only of the past but of
the contours of our modernity. Though it is dedicated principally to the
publication of original monographs and symposia in literature, history,
cultural analysis, and associated fields, there will be a salient role for
reprints of significant texts from, or about, the period. Our overarching
policy is to address the spectrum of nineteenth-century studies without
exception, achieving the widest scope in chronology, approach and
range of concern. This, we believe, distinguishes our project from com-
parable ones, and means, for example, that in the relevant areas of
scholarship we both recognize and cut innovatively across such param-
eters as those suggested by the designations ‘Romantic’ and Victorian’.
We welcome new ideas, while valuing tradition. It is hoped that the
world which predates yet so forcibly predicts and engages our own will
emerge in parts, as a whole, and in the lively currents of debate and
change that are so manifest an aspect of its intellectual, artistic and
social landscape.
Vincent Newey
Joanne Shattock
University of Leicester

List of Figures
1 ‘Key to the Colosseum Print’ 23
2 ‘The Inscription on the Pavement’ 33
3 ‘The Crow-Boy; or, the Christmas Luncheon’ 38
4 ‘Ireland and the Irish’ 42
5 ‘Society of Arts - Select Specimens’ 58
6 ‘Scenes in the Courtyard of the Tuileries’ 67
7 ‘The Pentonville Prison’ 89
8 ‘The Pentonville Prison’ (continued) 90
9 ‘The Peasantry of Dorsetshire’ 97
10 ‘The Peasantry of Dorsetshire’ (continued) 98
11 ‘Christmas Interiors, by the Old Bachelor’ 106
12 ‘Christmas Interiors: Cold Out of Doors, and Cold
In-Doors’ 108
13 ‘Accident on the Great Northern Railway of France’ 122
14 ‘The Monard Viaduct’ 128
15 ‘Old Style/New Style’ 132
16 ‘Railway Drawbridge over the Arun’ 134
17 ‘The Adopted’ 150
18 ‘Gerald Gage’ - Chapter 3 153
19 ‘Gerald Gage’ - Chapter 5 154
20 ‘Fred Holdersworth’ 162
21 ‘Mabel Marchmont’ 173
22 ‘Supplement: The Life of the Duke of Wellington’ 185
23 ‘The Duke of Wellington’s Funeral Car’ 189
24 ‘The Procession in Pall-Mall’ 192
25 ‘The Procession Passing Somerset House’ 193
26 ‘The Procession Passing St. Clement’s’ 194