Politics Personified: Portraiture, Caricature and Visual Culture in Britain, C.1830-80

by Miller Henry and Henry Miller

The remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and publishers exploited new visual technology to appeal to a broad public. The first study of the role of commercial imagery in nineteenth-century politics, Politics personified shows how visual images projected a favourable public image of politics and politicians. Drawing on a vast and diverse range of sources,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719090849
• ISBN13: 9780719090844
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"