PICTURE WORLD C

Explores the ways in which new forms of visual culture, such as such as the illustrated newspaper, the cheap caricature cartoon, the affordable illustrated book, the portrait photograph, and the advertising poster, worked to shape key Victorian aesthetic concepts.

Rachel Teukolsky is an Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on aesthetics, visual culture, and media history in nineteenth-century Britain. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University with a double major in English and Art History, and subsequently received a PhD in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 2009), awarded the Sonya Rudikoff Prize in 2010 for best first book in Victorian studies.

Introduction: Visual Culture in the Victorian Mediascape
1. 'Character': Flat, Zany, Grotesque: Caricature and the Politics of Character
2. 'Realism': Realism's War Pictures: Reality Effects in the Illustrated Newspaper
3. 'Illustration': Orients of the Self: Bible Illustration and the Victorian World Picture
4. 'Sensation': Cartomania: Sensation, Celebrity, and the Photographed Woman
5. 'Picturesque': The Picturesque in the Stereoscope: Nature, Touch, Time
6. 'Decadence': Consuming Decadence: Advertising and the Art Poster
Conclusion: Cinema in 1896