The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News, 1842-1870

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08301-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 389 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

This book looks at the roots of a global visual news culture: the trade in illustrations of the news between European illustrated newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century. In the age of nationalism, we might suspect these publications to be filled with nationally produced content, supporting a national imagined community. However, the large-scale transnational trade in illustrations, which this book uncovers, points out that nineteenth-century news consumers already looked at the same world. By exchanging images, European illustrated newspapers provided them with a shared, transnational, experience.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smits, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Readers all over the world: The audiences of the Illustrated London News, l’Illustration and the Illustrirte Zeitung, 1842-1870; 2. The transnational trade in illustrations of the news, 1842-1870; 3. Foreign images of war: L’Illustration’s images of the Crimean War in Cassell’s Illustrated Family Paper; 4. Images of the World: The transnational trade in illustrations and the visual representation of the Universal Exposition of 1867; Conclusion; Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Smits is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.