Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America

by Joshua Brown

Book Overview

In this wonderfully illustrated book, Joshua Brown shows that the wood engravings in the illustrated newspapers of Gilded Age America were more than a quaint predecessor to our own sophisticated media. As he tells the history and traces the influence of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, with relevant asides to Harper's Weekly, the New York Daily Graphic, and others, Brown recaptures the complexity and richness of pictorial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520248147
• ISBN13: 9780520248144
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"