‘For he has his pictures, ancient and modern’: Likenesses in Bleak House
The problem of physical and moral resemblance, the relation between original and copy, between a model and its representation, all those questions are relevant to Bleak House. This paper studies the notion of likeness in relation to the illustrations of the novel, not only Phiz’s original drawings f...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/12234 |
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| Summary: | The problem of physical and moral resemblance, the relation between original and copy, between a model and its representation, all those questions are relevant to Bleak House. This paper studies the notion of likeness in relation to the illustrations of the novel, not only Phiz’s original drawings for the first edition, but also Mervyn Peake’s abortive attempt at re-illustrating Bleak House in 1945. While Hablot K. Browne generally neglected physical resemblance and tried to offer a feeling of overall likeness involving all the various elements in his pictures (objects, décor, light and shade), Peake’s illustrations, concentrating on close-up faces and resorting to strong lighting effects, use a totally different strategy to reach the same objective: depicting a reality beyond the appearances mentioned in the text. |
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| ISSN: | 0220-5610 2271-6149 |