Prof. Dr. Detlev Gohrbandt unterrichtete von 1978 bis 2001 an der Universität des Saarlandes Englische Literaturwissenschaft, Landeskunde, English as a foreign language (EFL) und auch Fachdidaktik Englisch. Nach seiner Promotion (1975) und Habilitation (1995) hatte er den Lehrstuhl für English Cultural Studies an der Universität Landau inne (2001-2009) und lehrte dort Fachdidaktik Englisch.

Ausführliche Darstellung von illustrierten Buchreihen im historischen Zusammenhang
detaillierte Erläuterung von Illustrationstechniken
sorgfältige Analysen von Bild-Text Interaktion
Umfangreiches Bildmaterial

Introduction: The importance of popular illustrated narrative

1.1 How this study was born and grew up
1.2 Adjunctive relations between verbal and visual artefacts
1.3 Models for the cultural study of the illustrated book

2 Invention, decline and reform in the history of book illustration, 1850-1932
2.1 Techniques and economics of book illustration
2.2 Art and ethics of the illustrated book in England
2.3 Components of the book reform movement in Germany
2.4 Book reform in France from Bracquemond to Pelletan

3 Popular illustrated fiction from 1918 to 1939 - some major series
3.1 The many meanings of "popular"
3.2 Popular illustrated fiction series in France
3.2.1 Arthème Fayard's Le Livre de Demain (1923-47)
3.2.2 Joseph Ferenczi & Fils: Le Livre Moderne Illustré
3.2.3 The Grand Prix Gustave Doré and the rules of illustration
3.2.4 The Librairie Hachette and Les Grands Écrivains
3.3 German illustrated book series:
3.3.1 Illustrated fiction in the Insel-Bücherei
3.3.2 Samuel Fischer: Fischers Illustrierte Bücher
3.3.3 Kurt Wolff: Die Schwarzen Bücher and other series
3.4 Illustrated fiction series in Britain
3.4.1 John Lane The Bodley Head
3.4.2 Chatto & Windus and the Phoenix Library
3.4.3 Penguin and the Illustrated Classics

4 The semiotics and rhetoric of illustrated fiction
4.1 Kinds of ornament and illustration
4.2 Frans Masereel and the architecture of the illustrated book
4.3 Verbal and visual signs in The Patriot's Progress

5 Case studies in writers and illustrators
5.1 Five illustrated versions of Flaubert's "Un Coeur simple" (Trois Contes) illustrated by Albert Hoppler (1918), Robert Diaz de Soria (1923), Félix Vallotton (1924) and Georges Le Meilleur (1927)
5.2 Illustrating an argument: Bernard Shaw and John Farleigh
5.3 Robert Budzinski - artist and writer in a disrupted world

6 Afterword: Some conclusions and an outlook

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