Picturing reform in Victorian Britain /
Carlisle, Janice,
Picturing reform in Victorian Britain / Janice Carlisle. - 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 79 . - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 79. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.
Introduction -- 1. Art as politics : lines in theory and practice -- 2. Pictures on display -- 3. Redrawing the franchise in the 1860s : lines around the Constitution -- 4. Within the pale -- Conclusion.
"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"--
9781139870627 (electronic bk.) 1139870629 (electronic bk.) 9781139033824 (electronic bk.) 1139033824 (electronic bk.) 9781139865753 1139865757 9781139864916 1139864912 9781139862769 1139862766 9781107479753 (paperback) 1107479754 1139698494 9781139698498 1139861492 9781139861496
1800-1899
Suffrage in art.
Painting, Victorian--Great Britain.
Magazine illustration--Great Britain--19th century.
Art--Political aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Art and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Suffrage dans l'art.
Peinture victorienne--Grande-Bretagne.
Illustration des périodiques--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Art--Aspect politique--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Art et société--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
ART--Subjects & Themes--General.
Art and society.
Art--Political aspects.
Magazine illustration.
Painting, Victorian.
Suffrage in art.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
History.
N8251.S568 / C34 2012eb
704.9/49941081
Picturing reform in Victorian Britain / Janice Carlisle. - 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 79 . - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 79. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.
Introduction -- 1. Art as politics : lines in theory and practice -- 2. Pictures on display -- 3. Redrawing the franchise in the 1860s : lines around the Constitution -- 4. Within the pale -- Conclusion.
"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"--
9781139870627 (electronic bk.) 1139870629 (electronic bk.) 9781139033824 (electronic bk.) 1139033824 (electronic bk.) 9781139865753 1139865757 9781139864916 1139864912 9781139862769 1139862766 9781107479753 (paperback) 1107479754 1139698494 9781139698498 1139861492 9781139861496
1800-1899
Suffrage in art.
Painting, Victorian--Great Britain.
Magazine illustration--Great Britain--19th century.
Art--Political aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Art and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Suffrage dans l'art.
Peinture victorienne--Grande-Bretagne.
Illustration des périodiques--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Art--Aspect politique--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Art et société--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
ART--Subjects & Themes--General.
Art and society.
Art--Political aspects.
Magazine illustration.
Painting, Victorian.
Suffrage in art.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
History.
N8251.S568 / C34 2012eb
704.9/49941081