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Picturing reform in Victorian Britain /
"How did Victorians, as creators and viewers of images, visualize the politics of franchise reform? This study of Victorian art and parliamentary politics, specifically in the 1840s and 1860s, answers that question by viewing the First and Second Reform Acts from the perspectives offered by Rus...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
79. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "How did Victorians, as creators and viewers of images, visualize the politics of franchise reform? This study of Victorian art and parliamentary politics, specifically in the 1840s and 1860s, answers that question by viewing the First and Second Reform Acts from the perspectives offered by Ruskin's political theories of art and Bagehot's visual theory of politics. Combining subjects and approaches characteristic of art history, political history, literary criticism and cultural critique, Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain treats both paintings and wood engravings, particularly those published in Punch and the Illustrated London News. Carlisle analyzes unlikely pairings - a novel by Trollope and a painting by Hayter, an engraving after Leech and a high-society portrait by Landseer - to argue that such conjunctions marked both everyday life in Victorian Britain and the nature of its visual politics as it was manifested in the myriad heterogeneous and often incongruous images of illustrated journalism"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139870627 1139870629 9781139033824 1139033824 9781139865753 1139865757 9781139864916 1139864912 9781139862769 1139862766 9781107479753 1107479754 1139698494 9781139698498 1139861492 9781139861496 |