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The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-1860

The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-1860

by Patricia Anderson
Hardback
Publication Date: 19/12/1991

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In mid-nineteenth century Britain, literacy was by no means universal, and printed imagery captured the popular imagination in a way that words alone could not. This study shows how the widening dissemination of print led to the transformation of popular cultural experience such that by 1840 an essentially modern mass culture had begun to develop. Focusing on four illustrated magazines, but looking also at penny fiction and broadsides, Anderson interprets a wide variety of neglected sources. A recurring theme is the decline of the role of high art reproduction. Anderson combines modern cultural theory and historical evidence to demonstrate how people of all kinds--especially workers and women--interacted with the printed image, helping to shape the increasingly visual culture that was ultimately to lead to the growth of twentieth-century mass media.
ISBN:
9780198112365
9780198112365
Category:
Publishing industry & book trade
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
19-12-1991
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
241.3x163.58x18.72mm
Weight:
0.52kg

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