Stephanie Spencer is an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University, USA.

'...Recommended.' Choice 'Each subject is well illustrated and there is extensive reference to further reading. Arlis News-sheet '... the book is likely to be of use to readers interested in the thick history of all kinds of Victorian texts beyond the purely photographic. And if Spencer and Bedford tell us anything, it’s that there’s nothing purely photographic about photography.' Romanticism & Victorianism on the Net

• Contents: Introduction; The photographer and his setting; Wild North Wales; The healthful Devon coast; The pastoral Midlands; Architecture, religion and architects; The tour of the Middle East, 1862; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Stephanie Spencer is an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University, USA.

'...Recommended.' Choice 'Each subject is well illustrated and there is extensive reference to further reading. Arlis News-sheet '... the book is likely to be of use to readers interested in the thick history of all kinds of Victorian texts beyond the purely photographic. And if Spencer and Bedford tell us anything, it’s that there’s nothing purely photographic about photography.' Romanticism & Victorianism on the Net

• Contents: Introduction; The photographer and his setting; Wild North Wales; The healthful Devon coast; The pastoral Midlands; Architecture, religion and architects; The tour of the Middle East, 1862; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Stephanie Spencer is an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University, USA.

'...Recommended.' Choice 'Each subject is well illustrated and there is extensive reference to further reading. Arlis News-sheet '... the book is likely to be of use to readers interested in the thick history of all kinds of Victorian texts beyond the purely photographic. And if Spencer and Bedford tell us anything, it’s that there’s nothing purely photographic about photography.' Romanticism & Victorianism on the Net

• Contents: Introduction; The photographer and his setting; Wild North Wales; The healthful Devon coast; The pastoral Midlands; Architecture, religion and architects; The tour of the Middle East, 1862; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.