Henry Miller

Politics personified

Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830-80

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780719090844
• ISBN-10: 0719090849
• Artikelnr.: 42652247

Autorenporträt

Henry Miller is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British History at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 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