Reading Popular Prints 17901870 [Paperback]

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.

Brian Maidmentis Professor and Head of English at the University of Salford.

[Maidment] discovers through critical thinking and meticulous research, a resonance of reality...in the prints. —Reference & Research Book News

Prints as History and the History of Prints * Conflagration!: The Burning of the Albion Mill, Southwark, in 1971 * Educated Dustmen: Dirt and Disruption in the Pursuit of Knowledge in Regency and Early Victorian Britain * Coming Through the Cottage Door: Work, Leisure, Family, and Gender in Artisan Interiors * Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?: Narratives of Social Responsibility and Suicide in Mid-Victorian London