Pictures of Poverty: The Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen Adaptations

by Lydia Jakobs

From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in 'documentary' photographs taken in the slums. London and its street life were the preferred setting for George Robert Sims's rousing ballads and the numerous magic lantern slide series...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861967526
• ISBN13: 9780861967520
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: John Libbey & Company
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher