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Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye
Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye shows how the familiar genre went beyond mere reading instruction to offer nineteenth-century British writers, illustrators, and publishers a site for representing and re-thinking literacy itself. This interdisciplinary study traces how individuals throughout the Victorian era deployed alphabet books to promote visual literacy or oral culture as a vital complement to textual literacy. Their strategies ranged from puns and political allusions to elaborate designs that addressed adult audiences alongside or even instead of children. As the format became more familiar in the first part of Victoria's reign, George Cruikshank, William Makepeac...
Two Rose Trees
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Mudge and Her Chicks
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Scamper Through America
An Englishman travels with speed through the U.S., observing much of New England, but also the West Coast as it was just being settled.
