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Richard Doyle - The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842-1843 - 9780821421857 - V9780821421857
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The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842-1843

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Description for The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842-1843 Hardback. Editor(s): Scott, Professor Grant F. Series: Series in Victorian Studies. Num Pages: 440 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 262 x 34. Weight in Grams: 980.
Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard Dicky Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof. This volume collects the fifty-three illustrated missives in their entirety for the first time and provides an uncommon peek into the intimate but expansive observations of a precocious social commentator and artist. In a series of vivid manuscript canvases, Doyle observes Victorian customs and society. He visits operas, plays, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Ohio University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Series in Victorian Studies
Condition
New
Weight
980g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821421857
SKU
V9780821421857
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-18

About Richard Doyle
Grant F. Scott is a professor of English at Muhlenberg College. He is the author of The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts, the editor of Selected Letters of John Keats, Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs, and with Sue Brown, New Letters of Charles Brown to Joseph Severn.

Reviews for The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842-1843
Scott's collection of illustrated letters from the hand of Richard Doyle, the fascinating but neglected contributor to Punch magazine, are a goldmine. Accompanied by an excellent editorial apparatus, the letters provide a revealing glimpse into the lives of a Victorian family steeped in the arts in the early 1840s.
Bernard Lightman, York University In recovering the fascinating ... Read more

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