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Politics Personified
Henry Miller
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Description for Politics Personified
Hardcover. Investigates how reformers, conservatives, and radicals used portraiture to connect with supporters and build identity in Victorian politics. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ACV; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
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, this book highlights how and why politics was visualised. Beginning with an examination of the visual culture of reform, the book goes on to study how ... Read more
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, this book highlights how and why politics was visualised. Beginning with an examination of the visual culture of reform, the book goes on to study how ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719090844
SKU
V9780719090844
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Henry Miller
Henry Miller is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British History at the University of Manchester -- .
Reviews for Politics Personified
'In illuminating a path through the visual politics of this period, the book offers a useful bridge between art-historical and historical studies on this period. It is to be warmly welcomed and recommended.' Richard A. Gaunt, University of Nottingham, The Journal of the historical association 'Miller has produced a scholarly, readable and accomplished book which effectively ... Read more