Volume 34, Number 2 · February 12, 1987
Talking Pictures
By Robert Bernard Martin
Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760–1900
by Richard D. Altick
Ohio State University Press, 527 pp., $60.00
Richard Altick's books have been original and unpredictable, but never self-indulgent. Among other subjects, he has written about Victorian murderers, about literary biography, the public shows of nineteenth-century London, the sixteenth-century Roman murder trial that prompted Browning to write The Ring and the Book, and the Victorian origins of modern literary scholarship. What initially seems merely academically unfashionable and of secondary importance turns out to be central to understanding the period on which he is writing. And that period is usually Victorian England.
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