"'a concise and insightful guide into the complex issues involved in decoding forms of graphic imagery... many interesting insights and original insights [and] real skill in analysing the particular' Art History; 'this careful, thoughtful and highly stimulating study of prints as history.' Asa Briggs, Literature and History"

Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. Metal and wood engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, watercolors, and drawings all reflect changing attitudes towards gender, politics, the family, education, and industrialization. This revised second edition has many new illustrations which further assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. This revised second edition has many new illustrations which further assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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1. Prints as history and the history of prints; 2. Conflagration! - the buming of the Albion Mill, Southwark, in 1791; 3. Educated dustmen - dirt and disruption in the pursuit of knowledge in regency and early Victorian Britain; 4. Coming through the cottage door - work, leisure, family, and gender in artisan interiors; 5. Did she jump or was she pushed? - narratives of social responsibility and suicide in mid-Victorian London
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780719033711
Publisert
2001-08-09
Utgiver
Manchester University Press
Vekt
304 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
11 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

Brian Maidment is Professor of English at the University of Salford