Enfilade

From Routledge:

Isabelle Baudino, Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain (New York: Routledge, 2023), 202 pages, ISBN: 978-1032153643, $160.

Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain. This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain.

Isabelle Baudino is Senior Lecturer at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, France.

C O N T E N T S

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1  Picturing History
2  Reinventing the Past
3  The Historical Genre
4  Visual History as a New Language

Appendix
Select Bibliography
Index