| Description |
1 online resource (xliii, 323 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part I. Representing space : book culture, visual perspectivism, and intercultural communication -- Compiling creation : medieval codicology and images of early modern collection / by Janine Rogers -- Cosmography and perspectivism : Alonso de Fuentes's Summa de philosophia natural, its illustrations, and Cervantes's Don Quixote / by Rachel Schmidt -- 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 -- Annotation and books in early modern Spanish painting / by Lauren Beck -- Visualizing the news : the Amsterdam spin-doctor Claes Jansz Visscher and the West India Company / by Michiel van Groesen -- Text on image on text : picturing "nature" in Schall's illustrations for Rousseau's Julie, ou, La nouvelle Héloïse / by Ann Lewis -- Part III. Imagining empirical knowledge : illustrated travelogues, natural history treatises, and geological texts -- Description and representation in Oviedo's and Staden's travel accounts of the New World / by Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez -- Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton's anatomic descriptions complemented by Jacques de Sève's drawings : the hidden scientific gem of Buffon's Histoire naturelle / by Swann Paradis -- 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 -- Dialectic of/on foreignness : textual and iconographic representations of the faraway in the Histoire générale des voyages by Abbé Prévost / by Antoine Eche -- Illustrating for posterity : modes of readership in the eighteenth-century literary marketplace / by Leigh G. Dillard -- "Caricature untrammelled" : Thomas Tegg's illustrated satirical books / by Christina Smylitopoulos. |
| Summary |
This volume presents in-depth and contextualized analyses of a wealth of visual materials. The images included in the book provide readers with a mesmerizing and informative glimpse into how the early modern world was interpreted by image-makers and presented to viewers during a period that spans from manuscript culture to the age of caricature. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Writing and art -- History.
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Writing and art. |
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History. |
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Illustration of books -- History.
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Illustration of books. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Beck, Lauren, editor.
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Ionescu, Christina, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Visualizing the text. Newark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, [2017] 9781611496451 (DLC) 2017005513 |
| ISBN |
9781611496468 (Electronic) |
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1611496462 (Electronic) |
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9781644530290 (electronic book) |
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1644530295 (electronic book) |
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9781611496451 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1611496454 |
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9781644530276 |
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