Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-1860

Name: Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-1860
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ISBN: 9780198112365

ISBN-10: 019811236X

ISBN-13: 9780198112365

Edition: 1991

Authors: Patricia Anderson

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In mid-nineteenth century Britain, literacy was by no means universal, and printed imagery captured the popular imagination in a way that words alone could not. This study shows how the widening dissemination of print led to the transformation of popular cultural experience such that by 1840 an essentially modern mass culture had begun to develop. Focusing on four illustrated magazines, but looking also at penny fiction and broadsides, Anderson interprets a wide variety of neglected sources. A recurring theme is the decline of the role of high art reproduction. Anderson combines modern cultural theory and historical evidence to demonstrate how people of all kinds--especially workers and…

Book details

List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/19/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.44" wide x 9.50" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.144