Picturing reform in Victorian Britain

Picturing reform in Victorian Britain / Janice Carlisle.

"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 Rus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carlisle, Janice (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 79.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Suffrage in art.
Painting, Victorian > Great Britain.
Magazine illustration > Great Britain > 19th century.
Art > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Art and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
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
History
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Table of 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.

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