Comedy, Caricature Social Order 1820-5 CB

by Brian Maidment

Offering an overview of the marketplace for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the interest and importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It considers the impact on the development of print culture of the emergent, but soon widespread, use of lithography and wood engraving, both capable of integrating texts and images cheaply and imaginatively on the printed page. Drawing on a wide range of commercially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719075262
• ISBN13: 9780719075261
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.5"