Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain (Cambridge Studies in by Janice Carlisle

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By Janice Carlisle

How did Victorians, as creators and audience of pictures, visualize the politics of franchise reform? This learn of Victorian artwork and parliamentary politics, in particular within the 1840s and 1860s, solutions that query by way of viewing the 1st and moment Reform Acts from the views provided by way of Ruskin's political theories of artwork and Bagehot's visible conception of politics. Combining matters and ways attribute of artwork historical past, political background, literary feedback and cultural critique, Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain treats either work and wooden engravings, fairly these released in Punch and the Illustrated London information. Carlisle analyzes not likely pairings - a unique through Trollope and a portray via Hayter, an engraving after Leech and a high-society portrait through Landseer - to argue that such conjunctions marked either way of life in Victorian Britain and the character of its visible politics because it used to be manifested within the myriad heterogeneous and sometimes incongruous photos of illustrated journalism.

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