{"product_id":"artist-of-wonderland-frankie-morris-9780813923437","title":"Artist of Wonderland: The Life, Political Cartoons, and Illustrations of Tenniel","description":"\u003cp\u003eBest known today as the illustrator for Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was the Victorian era's chief political cartoonist. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family collections, public archives, and other depositories. Frankie Morris examines Tenniel's life and work, producing a book that is not only a definitive resource for scholars and collectors but one that can be easily enjoyed by everyone interested in Victorian life and art, social history, journalism and political cartoons, and illustrated books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first part of the book, Morris looks at Tenniel the man. From his sunny childhood and early enthusiasm for sports, theater, and medievalism to his flirtation with high art and fifty years in the close brotherhood of the London journal Punch, Tenniel is shown to have been the sociable and urbane humorist revealed in his drawings. According to his countrymen Tenniel's work--and his Punch cartoons in particular--would embody for future historians the \"trend and character\" of Victorian thought and life. Morris assesses to what extent that prediction has been fulfilled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe biography is followed by three parts on Tenniel's work, consisting of thirteen independent essays in which the author examines Tenniel's methods and his earlier book illustrations, the Alice pictures, and the Punch cartoons. She addresses such little-understood subjects as Tenniel's drawings on wood, his relationship with Lewis Carroll, and his controversial Irish cartoons, and inquires into the salient characteristics of his approximately 4,500 drawings for books and journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor lovers of Alice, Morris offers six chapters on Tenniel's work for Carroll. These reveal demonstrable links with Christmas pantomimes, Punch and Judy shows, nursery toys, magic lanterns, nineteenth-century grotesques, Gothic revivalism, and social caricatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn five probing studies, Morris demonstrates how Tenniel's cartoons depicted the key political questions of his day--the Eastern Question, which brought into opposition the great rivals Gladstone and Disraeli; trade-union issues and franchise reform; Irish resistance to British rule; and Lincoln and the American Civil War--examining their assumptions, devices, and evolving strategies. An appendix identifies some 1,500 unmonogrammed drawings done by Tenniel in his first twelve years on Punch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe definitive study of both the man and the work, \u003ci\u003eArtist of Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e gives an unprecedented view of the cartoonist whose adroit adaptations of elements from literature, art, and above all the stage succeeded in mythologizing the world for generations of Britons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot for sale in the British Commonwealth except Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvailable in the British Commonwealth, excluding Canada, from Lutterworth Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frankie Morris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813923433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813923437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.28h x 7.18w x 1.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2006 pg. 1812\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2006 pg. 36","brand":"Frankie Morris","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059831140607,"sku":"9780813923437","price":69.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7ba0d408-3c4f-4ff5-97aa-bf2c2e90f59e.jpg?v=1685060577","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/artist-of-wonderland-frankie-morris-9780813923437","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}