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Book SynopsisApplying media theory to late-Victorian print, Making Pictorial Print shows how popular illustrated magazines developed a new design interface that encouraged dynamic engagement and media literacy in the British public.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: A History of Victorian Print Media Literacy and the Technological Imagination 1. The Illustrated London News, Popular Illustrated Journalism, and the New Media Landscape, 1885–1907 2. Imagining Consumer Culture: Reading Advertisements in the Illustrated London News and the Graphic, 1885–1902 3. Imagining Political Subjectivity: Reading Data Visualizations in Pearson’s Magazine, 1896–1902 4. Imagining Print Production: Making Scrapbook Media, c.1830–1918 5. Imagining New Media Platforms: Taking Snapshots for the Strand, 1896–1918 Conclusion: Victorian Media Literacies and the Genealogy of the Present
