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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Lincoln
The fall of the house of Moxon: James Bertrand Payne and the Illustrated Idylls of the King
Context:
The article builds on material first uncovered during the development of the Exhibition 'Tennyson Transformed' (2009).
Research resides within the processes of:
identifying unpublished archival material; assessment of this material in the context of current secondary research; proposing of a new way of understanding a crucial episode in Tennyson's career.
Insights:
Tennyson's disagreements with his publisher revolved around the edition of 'Idylls of the King', illustrated by Gustave Dore, published 1866-9; this illustrated edition was a commercial disaster that led to the bankruptcy of Moxon and Co.; the argument exposes a deep divide between the Romantic idea of poetry and the physical forms that poetry took in the 1860s.
Sharing:
The research was shared in the article and in conference papers delivered in Oxford (2009), Leeds (2010), Sheffield (2010)
