Description
Book SynopsisThe first study of the role of commercial imagery in nineteenth-century politics, Politics personified shows how visual images projected a favourable public image of politics and politicians. Drawing on a vast and diverse range of sources, this book highlights how and why politics was visualised.
Trade Review‘In illuminating a path through the visual politics of this period, the book offers a useful bridge between art-historical and historical studies on this period. It is to be warmly welcomed and recommended.’
Richard A. Gaunt, University of Nottingham, The Journal of the historical association
‘Miller has produced a scholarly, readable and accomplished book which effectively maps out virtually the whole terrain of political imagery from out-of doors radical and constituency politics, to the houses of parliament and Number 10. It will be widely read by all students of Victorian culture, political or otherwise, and doubtless remain the standard work on the subject for some time to come.’
Simon Morgan, Leeds Beckett University, The Parliamentary History 2017
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. The visual culture of reform, 1830–32
2. Party politics and portraiture, 1832–46
3. Radical visual culture: from caricature to portraiture
4. Reforming pantheons: political group portraiture and history painting
5. Representing the representatives: MPs and portraiture
6. Palmerston and his rivals
7. Disraeli, Gladstone and the personification of party, 1868–80
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index
