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

by Patricia Anderson

Book Overview

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"