Table of Contents

List of Plates List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Identifying with Books Discussion 1. Fronts Matter: The Role of the Authorial Frontispiece in Germaine de Staël’s Corinne: or, Italy (Seren Nolan, Durham University, UK) 2. Othering the Ex-Libris: Israel Solomons and the Invention of the Jewish Bookplate (Tom Stammers, Durham University, UK) Bridge Part II. Representing Authority Discussion 3. Picturing Criminal Law in Old Regime France (Tom Hamilton, Durham University, UK) 4. Word and Image in Popular Science (Joseph D. Martin, Durham University, UK) Bridge Part III. Order and Disorder Discussion 5. Museum Labels: Word and Object on Display (Lola Sánchez-Jáuregui, University of Glasgow, UK) 6. Play with Literacy in Edward Lear’s Nonsense Alphabets (A. Robin Hoffman, Art Institute of Chicago, USA) Bridge Part IV. Authenticity and Interpretation Discussion 7. On Taking Artists at Their Word: Artists’ Writings and Statements from 1850 to the Present (Lucy Whelan, University of Cambridge, UK) 8. Portraiture and Biography: Harmonious Marriage or Difficult Relationship? (Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University, UK) Bridge Part V. Making, Compiling, Arranging Discussion 9. Extra-Illustration in Early Twentieth-Century England (Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University, UK) 10. Beyond the Caption: Words and Images in an Interwar Soviet Amateur Photograph Album (Antonia Miejluk, Durham University, UK) Bridge Part VI. Words in the Visual Field Discussion 11. Word as Image: The Verbal in the Photograph (J. J. Long, Durham University, UK) 12. Text-Image Hybridity in Know Thyself and Early Modern English Print (Finola Finn, independent scholar, Germany) Bridge Afterword: Word, Image and Play Bibliography Index

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Encouraging us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact, this book highlights the complex relationship between ways of looking and reading.

About the Author

Ludmilla Jordanova is Emeritus Professor of History and Visual Culture at Durham University, UK. She is the author of History in Practice, 3rd Edition (Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-editor of Writing Visual Histories (Bloomsbury, 2020). Florence Grant holds a PhD in History from King's College London, UK, and is currently an independent writer and editor based in Western North Carolina, USA. With Ludmilla Jordanova, she is co-editor of Writing Visual Histories (Bloomsbury, 2020).