The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-1860
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0198182767
ISBN13:9780198182764
Release Date:June 1994
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:224 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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