Janice Carlisle

Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative exploration of Victorian art and politics that examines how paintings and newspaper illustrations visualized franchise reform.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9781107479753
• ISBN-10: 1107479754
• Artikelnr.: 42316793

Autorenporträt

Janice Carlisle is Professor of English at Yale University and has published on a wide variety of Victorian subjects, including essays on the autobiographical novels of Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, as well as books on the ethical implications of Victorian fiction. More recently she has written on the culture of Britain in the 1860s, and has published Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction (2004), a book on the sensory registers of novels written at that time.

Inhaltsangabe

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.