Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Featuring a wide range of images, from paintings displayed at Royal Academy exhibitions and in the Houses of Parliament to wood engravings in Punch and the Illustrated London News, this study offers new perspectives on the connections between Victorian art and politics by examining visualizations of franchise reform.

Product details

• Authors: Janice Carlisle, Janice (Yale University Carlisle
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2015
• EAN: 9781107479753
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47975-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies