Reading popular prints, 1790-1870

✍ Scribed by B.E Maidment

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 206
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
List of illustrations (page vii)
Acknowledgements (page ix)
Preface (page xiii)
1. Prints as history and the history of prints (page 1)
2. Conflagration! The burning of the Albion Mill, Southwark, in 1791 (page 27)
3. Educated dustmen: dirt and disruption in the pursuit of knowledge in Regency and early Victorian Britain (page 53)
4. Coming through the cottage door: work, leisure, family and gender in artisan interiors (page 101)
5. Did she jump or was she pushed? Narratives of social responsibility and suicide in mid-Victorian London (page 138)
Bibliography (page 175)
Index (page 187)

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