Reading Popular Prints: 1790-1870

Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. Metal and wood engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, watercolors, and drawings all reflect changing attitudes towards gender, politics, the family, education, and industrialization. This revised second edition has many new illustrations which further assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author: Brian Maidment
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 08/09/2001
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.20w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780719033711

About the Author
Brian Maidment is Professor and Head of English at the University of Salford.