Picturing reform in Victorian Britain / Janice Carlisle.

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Carlisle, Janice [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 79.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781139870627
1139870629
9781139033824
1139033824
9781139865753
1139865757
9781139864916
1139864912
9781139862769
1139862766
9781107479753
1107479754
1139698494
9781139698498
1139861492
9781139861496

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Picturing reform in Victorian BritainDDC classification:

704.9/49941081 23

LOC classification:

N8251.S568 C34 2012eb

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LIT004120

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Contents:

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.

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher

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"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"-- Provided by publisher