Miller Politics personified

Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830–80
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1171-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Henry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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