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Item Number: 144856
Title: Visualizing the Text : From Manuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature
Author: Beck, Lauren ; Christina Ionescu (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781611496451
Description: Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2017. 24cm., hardcover, 323pp. illus.

Contents: Introduction Visualizing the Text from Manuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature: A Theoretical, Methodological, and Conceptual Framework Christina Ionescu Part I: Representing Space: Book Culture, Visual Perspectivism, and Intercultural Communication Chapter 1: Compiling Creation: Medieval Codicology and Images of Early Modern Collection by Janine Rogers Chapter 2: Cosmography and Perspectivism: Alonso de Fuentes's Summa de philosophia natural, Its Illustrations, and Cervantes's Don Quixote by Rachel Schmidt Chapter 3: The Development of Mixed Pictographic-Alphabetic Accounting Documents in Colonial Mexico by Cecilia Brain Part II: Annotating the Image: Baroque Painting, News Maps, and Print Captions Chapter 4: Annotation and Books in Early Modern Spanish Painting by Lauren Beck Chapter 5: Visualizing the News: The Amsterdam Spin-Doctor Claes Jansz Visscher and the West India Company by Michiel van Groesen Chapter 6: Text on Image on Text: Picturing "Nature" in Schall's Illustrations for Rousseau's Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise by Ann Lewis Part III: Imagining Empirical Knowledge: Illustrated Travelogues, Natural History Treatises, and Geological Texts Chapter 7 : Description and Representation in Oviedo's and Staden's Travel Accounts of the New World by Sandra Saenz-Lopez Perez Chapter 8: Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton's Anatomic Descriptions Complemented by Jacques de Seve's Drawings: The Hidden Scientific Gem of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle by Swann Paradis Chapter 9: From Analogies to Patterns: Images in French and British Geological Texts (1760-1800) by David McCallam Part IV: Illustrating the Text: Engraved Exotica, Traces of Reading, and Satirical Books Chapter 10: Dialectic of/on Foreignness: Textual and Iconographic Representations of the Faraway in the Histoire Generale des Voyages by Abbe Prevost by Antoine Eche Chapter 11: Illustrating for Posterity: Modes of Readership in the Eighteenth-Century Literary Marketplace by Leigh G. Dillard Chapter 12: "Caricature Untrammelled": Thomas Tegg's Illustrated Satirical Books by Christina Smylitopoulos.

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