Enfilade

From Penn State UP:

Jeffrey Merrick, ed., Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France: A Documentary History (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019), 272 pages, ISBN: 978-0271083353, $90.

In this book, Jeffrey Merrick brings together a rich array of primary-source documents—many of which are published or translated here for the first time—that depict in detail the policing of same-sex populations in eighteenth-century France and the ways in which Parisians regarded what they called sodomy or pederasty and tribadism. Taken together, these documents suggest that male and female same-sex relations played a more visible public role in Enlightenment-era society than was previously believed.

The translated and annotated sources included here show how robust the same-sex subculture was in eighteenth-century Paris, as well as how widespread the policing of sodomy was at the time. Part 1 includes archival police records from the 1720s to the 1780s that show how the police attempted to manage sodomitical activity through surveillance and repression; part 2 includes excerpts from treatises and encyclopedias, published nouvelles (collections of news) and libelles (libelous writings), fictive portrayals, and Enlightenment treatments of the topic that include calls for legal reform. Together these sources show how contemporaries understood same-sex relations in multiple contexts and cultures, including their own. The resulting volume is an unprecedented look at the role of same-sex relations in the culture and society of the era.

The product of years of archival research curated, translated, and annotated by a premier expert in the field, Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France provides a foundational primary text for the study and teaching of the history of sexuality.

Jeffrey Merrick is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Order and Disorder Under the Ancien Régime and coeditor of Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.

C O N T E N T S

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Glossary

Introduction

Part I. Surveillance of the Parisian Subculture
A  Reports from the Archives of the Bastille
B  Reports of the Watch/Guard and the Commissaires
C  Reports of the Swiss Guard in the Champs-Élysées and the Commissaires
D  Reports of Commissaires Foucault and Desormeaux

Part II. Representations of Same-Sex Relations
E  Gossip and Slander
F  Tradition
G  Enlightenment
H  Fictions

Notes
Recommended Reading
Index

From Cambridge UP:

Ian Haywood, Susan Matthews, and Mary Shannon, eds., Romanticism and Illustration (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 360 pages, ISBN: 978-1108425711, $120.

This collection of essays takes a fresh look at the important role of illustration in Romantic literature. The late eighteenth century saw an explosion of illustrated editions of literary classics and the emergence of a new culture of literary art, including the innovative literary galleries. The impact of these developments on the reading and viewing of literary texts is explored in a series of case studies covering poetry, historical texts, drama, painting, reproductive prints, magazines and ephemera. Romanticism and Illustration argues for a more detailed study of illustration which includes the context of a wider circulation of images across different media. The modern understanding of the word ‘illustration’ fails to convey the complex relationship between the artist, the engraver, the publisher, the text and the audience in Romantic Britain. In teasing out the implications of this dynamic cultural matrix, this book opens up a new field of Romantic studies.

C O N T E N T S

Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

Editors’ Introduction

Part I. Illustrating Poetry
1  Peter Otto, The Ends of Illustration: Explanation, Critique, and the Political Imagination in Blake’s Title-pages for Genesis
2  Sophie Thomas, ‘With a Master’s Hand and Prophet’s Fire’: Blake, Gray, and the Bard
3  Dustin Frazier Wood, Seeing History: Illustration, Poetic Drama, and the National Past
4  Martin Priestman, ‘Fuseli’s Poetic Eye’: Prints and Impressions in Fuseli and Erasmus Darwin
5  Susan Matthews, Henry Fuseli’s Accommodations: ‘Attempting the Domestic’ in the Illustrations to Cowper
6  Sandro Jung, Reading the Romantic Vignette: Stothard Illustrates Bloomfield, Byron, and Crabbe for The Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas
7  Maureen McCue, Intimate Distance: Thomas Stothard’s and J. M. W. Turner’s Illustrations of Samuel Rogers’s Italy

Part II. The Business of Illustration
8  Ian Haywood, Illustration, Terror, and Female Agency: Thomas Macklin’s Poets Gallery in a Revolutionary Decade
9  Luisa Calè, Maria Cosway’s Hours: Cosmopolitan and Classical Visual Culture in Thomas Macklin’s Poets Gallery
10  Mary Shannon, Artists’ Street: Thomas Stothard, R. H. Cromek, and Literary Illustration on London’s Newman Street
11  Brian Maidment, The Development of Magazine Illustration in Regency Britain: The Example of Arliss’s Pocket Magazine, 1818–1833

Coda, Martin Myrone, Romantic Illustration and the Privatization of History Painting

Bibliography
Index

Distributed in the US and Canada by The University of Chicago Press:

Sue Laurence, The Hand that Rocked the Cradle: The Art of Birth and Infancy (London: Unicorn Publishing, 2019), 192 pages, ISBN: 978-1911604556, $30.

Throughout the history of art, artists have been drawn to images of birth and infancy. After all, who doesn’t want to look at a baby? This book uses that bounty of imagery to offer a fresh perspective on the history of birth and the early years of life through a rich array of images and objects, including paintings, prints, sculptures, metalwork, jewelry, textiles, ceramics, furniture, and woodwork—as well as images from medical and social history collections.

Exploring a long chronological scope, from around 1300 to the turn of the twentieth century, Sue Laurence provides insight into the enduring nature of many traditions and experiences related to childhood and infancy—many of which we tend to assume are of recent vintage, but turn out, when examined closely, to have roots in the medieval era. Packed with beautiful images, and offering surprising new interpretations and contextualization, The Hand That Rocked the Cradle is a treasure trove for any lover of art—or doting parent.

Sue Laurence has served as Head of the V&A Museum of Childhood, where she created many innovative exhibitions as well as securing significant acquisitions. She has also been head of interpretation at the National Archives and a curator at the Florence Nightingale Museum.

From Bloomsbury:

Susan Doyle, Jaleen Grove, and Whitney Sherman, eds., History of Illustration (London: Fairchild Books, 2018), 592 pages, ISBN: 978-1501342110 (hardback), $240 / ISBN: 978-1501342103 (paperback), $90.

History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the modern. Hundreds of color images show illustrations within their social, cultural, and technical context, while they are ordered from the past to the present. Readers will be able to analyze images for their displayed techniques, cultural standards, and ideas to appreciate the art form. This essential guide is the first history of illustration written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators.

Susan Doyle is Chair and Associate Professor at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.
Jaleen Grove is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Douglas B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University.
Whitney Sherman is Director of the MFA in Illustration Practice at Maryland Institute College of Art.

C O N T E N T S

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

I. Illustrative Traditions in Europe, Asia, and Africa
1  Image and Meaning, Prehistory to 1500 by Robert Brinkerhoff and Margot McIlwin Nishimura
2  Illustration in Printed Matter in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1660 by Susan Doyle
3  Pluralistic View of Indian Images: 2nd BCE to the 1990s by Binita Desai and Nina Sabnani
4  Illustrative Traditions in the Muslim Context by Irvin Cemil Schick
5  Chinese Illustration before 1900 by Sonja Kelley and Frances Wood
6  Prints and Books in Japan’s Floating World by Daphne Rosenzweig
7  Illustration in Latin America from Pre-Columbian to Modern 1990s by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
8  Illustration in the African Context by Bolaji Campbell with contributions by Winifred Lambrecht

II. Images as Knowledge, Ideas as Power
9  Observation and the Representation of Natural Science Illustration, 1450–1900 by Shelley Wall
10  Visualizing Bodies: Anatomical and Medical Illustration from the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century by Shelley Wall
11  Dangerous Pictures: Social Commentary in Europe, 1720–1860 by Robert Lovejoy
12  From Reason to Romanticism by Hope Saska

III. The Advent of Mass Media
13  Illustration on British and North American Printed Ephemera of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Graham Hudson
14  Illustration in the Expansion of the Graphic Journalism and Magazine Fiction in Europe and North America, 1830–1900 by Brian Kane and Page Knox
15  Beautifying Books and Popularizing Posters: Illustration in the Later Nineteenth Century by Susan Ashbrook and Alison Syme
16  Fantasy and Children’s Book Illustration Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century England by Alice Carter
17  Six Centuries of Fashion Illustration by Pamela Parmal

IV. Diverging Paths in 20th-Century American and European Illustration
18  American Narratives: Periodical Illustration in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century by Mary Holahan with contributions by Alice Carter and Joyce Schiller
19  Avant-garde Illustration, 1900–1950 by Jaleen Grove
20  Diverse American Illustration Trends in Periodicals, 1915–1940 by Roger Reed
21  Wartime Imagery and Propaganda, 1890–1950 by Thomas LaPadula
22  Illustrating Alternate Realities in Pulps and Other Popular Fiction by Nicholas Egon Jainschigg with contributions by Robert Lovejoy
23  Overview of Comics and Graphic Narratives by Brian M. Kane with contributions by Loren Goodman and Michelle Nolan

V. The Evolution of Illustration in an Electronic Age
24  The Shifting Postwar Marketplace: Illustration Competes with Growing Media Options in the United States and Canada, 1940–1970 by Stephanie Plunkett
25  Children’s Book Illustration, 1920–2000 by H. Nichols B. Clark
26  Countercultures: Underground Comix, Rock Posters, and Protest Art, 1960–1990 by Robert Lovejoy
27  Print Illustration in the Postmodern World by Whitney Sherman
28  Medical Illustration after Gray’s Anatomy: 1859 to the Present by David M. Mazierski
29  Digital Forms by Nanette Hoogslag and Whitney Sherman

Bibliography
Glossary
Index

From Prestel:

Thomas Murray and Virginia Soenksen, with a foreword by Anna Jackson, Textiles of Japan (London: Prestel, 2018), 520 pages, ISBN: 978-3791385204, $85 / £65.

From rugged Japanese firemen’s ceremonial robes and austere rural work-wear to colorful, delicately-patterned cotton kimonos, this lavishly illustrated volume explores Japan’s rich tradition of textiles.

Textiles are an eloquent form of cultural expression and of great importance in the daily life of a people, as well as in their rituals and ceremonies. The traditional clothing and fabrics featured in this book were made and used in the islands of the Japanese archipelago between the late 18th and the mid 20th century. The Thomas Murray collection featured in this book includes daily dress, work-wear, and festival garb and follows the Arts and Crafts philosophy of the Mingei Movement, which saw that modernization would leave behind traditional art forms such as the hand-made textiles used by country people, farmers, and fisherman. It presents subtly patterned cotton fabrics, often indigo dyed from the main islands of Honshu and Kyushu, along with garments of the more remote islands: the graphic bark cloth, nettle fiber, and fish skin robes of the aboriginal Ainu in Hokkaido and Sakhalin to the north, and the brilliantly colored cotton kimonos of Okinawa to the far south. Numerous examples of these fabrics, photographed in exquisite detail, offer insight into Japan’s complex textile history as well as inspiration for today’s designers and artists. This volume explores the range and artistry of the country’s tradition of fiber arts and is an essential resource for anyone captivated by the Japanese aesthetic.

Thomas Murray is a dealer of Asian and tribal art and has an extensive personal collection of Japanese and Indonesian textiles. He is a past president of the Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association (ATADA), and served on President Obama’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee at the Department of State in Washington, D.C.
Virginia Soenksen is Associate Director of the Madison Art Collection at James Madison University in Virginia.
Anna Jackson is Keeper of the Asian Department at The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where she is responsible for the museum’s collection of Japanese textiles and dress.

From Routledge:

Shun-liang Chao and John Michael Corrigan, eds., Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts (London: Routledge, 2019), 336 pages, ISBN: 978-0367076726, £115 / $145.

Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts presents the most wide-ranging treatment of Romantic regenerations, covering the cross-pollination between the arts or between art and thought within or across the borders of Germany, Britain, France, the US, Russia, India, China, and Japan. Each chapter examines a legacy or afterlife in a comparative context to demonstrate ongoing Romantic legacies as fully as possible in their complexity and richness. The volume provides a lens through which to understand Romanticism not merely as an artistic heritage but as a dynamic site of intellectual engagement that crosses nations and time periods and entails no less than the shaping of our global cultural currents.

Shun-liang Chao is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He’s the author of Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelatire, Magritte (Legenda/Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2018).

John Michael Corrigan is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He’s the author of American Metempsychosis: Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry (Fordham UP, 2012).

C O N T E N T S

Foreword, James Engell

Introduction, Shun-liang Chao and John Michael Corrigan

I. Realist Romanticism
1  Romantic Walking and Railway Realism, Rachel Bowlby
2  The Use and Abuse of Romance: Realist Revisions of Walter Scott in England, France, and Germany, Geoffrey Baker
3  Chekhov on the Meaning of Life: After Romanticism and Nihilism, Yuri Corrigan

II. Fin-de-Siècle Romanticism
4  Keats Gone Wilde: Wilde’s Romantic Self-Fashioning at the Fin de Siècle, Ya-Feng Wu
5  Delacroix, Signac, and the Aesthetic Revolution in Fin-de-siècle France, Shao-Chien Tseng
6  Mediating Richard Wagner and Henry Bishop: Frederick Corder and the Different Legacies of German and English Romantic Opera, David Chandler

III. (Post)Modern Romanticism
7  Platonism, Its Heirs, and the Last Romantic, Arthur Versluis
8  Vexed Meditation: Romantic Idealism in Coleridge and Its Afterlife in Bataille and Irigaray, Justin Prystash
9  ‘You have to be a transparent eyeball’: Transcendental Afterlives in Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, John Michael Corrigan

IV. Environmental Romanticism
10  Tracing Romanticism in the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Reading of Ludwig Tieck’s Rune Mountain, Caroline Schaumann
11  The Eye of the Earth: Nonhuman Vision from Blake to Contemporary Ecocriticism, Sophie Laniel-Musitelli
12  ‘Indistinctness is my forte’: Turner, Ruskin, and the Climate of Art, Carmen Casaliggi

V. Oriental Romanticism
13  ReOrienting Romanticism: The Legacy of Indian Romantic Poetry in English, Steve Clark
14  Grafting German Romanticism onto the Chinese Revolution: Goethe, Guo Morou, and the Pursuit of Self-Transcendence, Johannes Kaminski
15  Two Chinese Wordsworths: The Reception of Wordsworth in Twentieth-Century China, Li Ou
16  ‘The world must be made Romantic’: The Sentimental Grotesque in Tetsuya Ishida’s ‘Self-Portraits of Others’, Shun-liang Chao

Index