Robert Seymour and nineteenth century print culture: sketches by Seymour and comic illustration

Abstract

"Robert Seymour and Nineteenth Century Print Culture is the first book length study of the original illustrator of Dickens's Pickwick Papers. Discussion of the range and importance of Seymour's work as a jobbing illustrator in the 1820s and 1830s is at the centre of the book. A bibliographical study of his prolific output of illustrations in many different print genres is combined with a wide-ranging account of his major publications. Seymour's extended work for The Comic Magazine, New Readings of Old Authors and Humorous Sketches, all described in detail, are of particular importance in locating the dialogue between image and text at the moment when the Victorian illustrated novel is coming into being"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Getting to know Seymour -- Seymour and the publishers -- Social satires : the march of intellect and other social transformations -- The Comic magazine 1832-1834 -- New readings of old authors -- The Humorous sketches and their Victorian afterlife -- Coda : reading Pickwick through Seymour.