Abstract
The article explores the way in which image and text became increasingly confused during the 1880s and 1890s. Images became telling and spoke truths while texts showed and depicted scenes. Conventions that had been established for stage and drama were adopted by writers, who often incorporated image into their writing. Writers like Jerome K. Jerome and the Grossmiths played up such confusion between picture and text for comic effect. In this article these texts are examined and connected to an emerging culture in which text and image were collapsed and flattened.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Literature and image in the long nineteenth century |
| Subtitle of host publication | speaking picture and silent text |
| Editors | Amina Alyal |
| Place of Publication | Newcastle on Tyne |
| Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Chapter | 1 |
| Pages | 15-42 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781527519725, 1527519724 |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Sept 2023 |
Keywords
- Jerome K Jerome
- Weedon Grossmith
- The Diary of a Nobody
- Three Men in a Boat
- Martin Meisel