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• Title:The portrait and the book : illustration & literary culture in early America / Megan Walsh.
  
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• Variant Title:Illustration and literary culture in early America.
  
• Author/Creator:Walsh, Megan (Professor), author.
  
• Published/Created:Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2017]
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NC975 .W357 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Illustrated books--History--17th century.
  Illustrated books--History--18th century.
  Portraits, Colonial.
  Printing--United States--History--17th century.
  Printing--United States--History--18th century.
  
• Description:viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Impressions (Series) (University of Iowa Press)
  
• Summary:"In The Portrait and the Book, Megan Walsh argues that colonial-era author portraits, such as Benjamin Franklin's and Phillis Wheatley's frontispieces; political portraits that circulated during the debates over the Constitution, such as those of the Founders by Charles Willson Peale; and portraits of beloved fictional characters in the 1790s, such as those of Samuel Richardson's heroine Pamela, shaped readers' conceptions of American literature. Through an examination of readers' portrait-collecting habits, writers' employment of ekphrasis, printers' efforts to secure American-made illustrations for periodicals, and engravers' reproductions of British book illustrations, this book uncovers in late eighteenth-century America a dynamic but forgotten visual culture that was inextricably tied to the printing industry and to the early US literary imagination" -- Back cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1609385020
  9781609385026
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. One Benjamin Franklin's Portraits and Colonial Printing
  ch. Two Phillis Wheatley and the Durability of the Author Portrait
  ch. Three Nationalist Portraiture, Magazines, and Political Books
  ch. Four Picturing the Seduction Heroine in the United States
  ch. Five Gothic Portraiture in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Ormond.