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Book Synopsis
Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. This revised second edition has many new illustrations which further assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Trade Review
"'a concise and insightful guide into the complex issues involved in decoding forms of graphic imagery... many interesting insights and original insights [and] real skill in analysing the particular' Art History; 'this careful, thoughtful and highly stimulating study of prints as history.' Asa Briggs, Literature and History"

Table of Contents
1. Prints as history and the history of prints; 2. Conflagration! - the buming of the Albion Mill, Southwark, in 1791; 3. Educated dustmen - dirt and disruption in the pursuit of knowledge in regency and early Victorian Britain; 4. Coming through the cottage door - work, leisure, family, and gender in artisan interiors; 5. Did she jump or was she pushed? - narratives of social responsibility and suicide in mid-Victorian London

Reading Popular Prints 17901870

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 8 September 2001
      ISBN-13 9780719033711
      978-0719033711
      ISBN-10 0719033713

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. This revised second edition has many new illustrations which further assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries.

      Trade Review
      "'a concise and insightful guide into the complex issues involved in decoding forms of graphic imagery... many interesting insights and original insights [and] real skill in analysing the particular' Art History; 'this careful, thoughtful and highly stimulating study of prints as history.' Asa Briggs, Literature and History"

      Table of Contents
      1. Prints as history and the history of prints; 2. Conflagration! - the buming of the Albion Mill, Southwark, in 1791; 3. Educated dustmen - dirt and disruption in the pursuit of knowledge in regency and early Victorian Britain; 4. Coming through the cottage door - work, leisure, family, and gender in artisan interiors; 5. Did she jump or was she pushed? - narratives of social responsibility and suicide in mid-Victorian London

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