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Research paper thumbnail of Thomas Stothard interprète les Lettres d'une Péruvienne pour The Novelist's Magazine (1782)

Stothard, qui illustra les Lettres d'une Péruvienne pour The Novelist's Magazine en 1782,... more Stothard, qui illustra les Lettres d'une Péruvienne pour The Novelist's Magazine en 1782, réalisa d'abord deux avant-gravures, type de dessins très mal connus car généralement vendus à part. L'article étudie dans le détail ces deux lavis, retrouvés au British Museum, ainsi que les deux gravures correspondantes : maîtrise de l'artiste, ambiance champêtre, mais aussi volonté de réintroduire, par le dessin, la fin, évitée par Graffigny, du roman sur le happy-end du mariage.

Research paper thumbnail of A Gallery of Ordinary Portraits in Words and Images: Restif de La Bretonne's Les Contemporaines du commun (1782-1783)

Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies, 2008

Books by Christina Ionescu

Research paper thumbnail of Visualizing the Text: From Manuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature, ed. with Christina Ionescu  (University of Delaware Press, 2017)

This volume provides readers and viewers with a mesmerizing and informative glimpse into how the ... more This volume provides readers and viewers 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. The premise of this collection responds to a fundamental question: how are early modern texts, objects, and systems of knowledge imaged and consumed through bimodal, hybrid, or intermedial products that rely on both words and pictures to convey meaning? The twelve contributors to this collection go beyond traditional lines of inquiry into word-and-image interaction to deconstruct visual dynamics and politics—to show how images were shaped, manipulated, displayed, and distributed to represent the material world, to propagate official and commercial messages, to support religious practice and ideology, or to embody relations of power.

Research paper thumbnail of Thomas Stothard interprète les Lettres d'une Péruvienne pour The Novelist's Magazine (1782)

Stothard, qui illustra les Lettres d'une Péruvienne pour The Novelist's Magazine en 1782,... more Stothard, qui illustra les Lettres d'une Péruvienne pour The Novelist's Magazine en 1782, réalisa d'abord deux avant-gravures, type de dessins très mal connus car généralement vendus à part. L'article étudie dans le détail ces deux lavis, retrouvés au British Museum, ainsi que les deux gravures correspondantes : maîtrise de l'artiste, ambiance champêtre, mais aussi volonté de réintroduire, par le dessin, la fin, évitée par Graffigny, du roman sur le happy-end du mariage.

Research paper thumbnail of A Gallery of Ordinary Portraits in Words and Images: Restif de La Bretonne's Les Contemporaines du commun (1782-1783)

Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Visualizing the Text: From Manuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature, ed. with Christina Ionescu  (University of Delaware Press, 2017)

This volume provides readers and viewers with a mesmerizing and informative glimpse into how the ... more This volume provides readers and viewers 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. The premise of this collection responds to a fundamental question: how are early modern texts, objects, and systems of knowledge imaged and consumed through bimodal, hybrid, or intermedial products that rely on both words and pictures to convey meaning? The twelve contributors to this collection go beyond traditional lines of inquiry into word-and-image interaction to deconstruct visual dynamics and politics—to show how images were shaped, manipulated, displayed, and distributed to represent the material world, to propagate official and commercial messages, to support religious practice and ideology, or to embody relations of power.

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