This work offers a wonderfully illustrated guide - and a rigorous
analysis - of popular print and literature in all its many forms in
the first half of the 19th century.It provides a unique collection
of illustrated popular literature published between the events of
'Peterloo' in 1819 and the Great Exhibition of 1851, much never
reprinted before. This was a time when the expansive growth of
literacy led to the rapid and diverse evolution of popular culture,
of publishing and print. This did much to transform the life
experiences of millions. The printing press, combined with the
railways and the telegraph, was a key agent of mass change.Louis
James gives a picture of what the working classes were reading and
a fascinating insight into their interest and concerns - their
sports, work, crime, politics, religion and entertainments. His
detailed introduction places all of this in its context of the
contemporary cultural and social movements.The book profusely
illustrates the fare which was offered: woodcut pictures,
broadsheets and ballads, sensational Gothic novels issued in parts,
newspapers and magazines, melodramatic penny dreadfuls published
weekly in parts, and tracts of all kinds. The work examines this
material in its many aspects, and from both sides of the social
mirror. As well as showing the material, and analysing its
significance, the book deals with official attempts to damp down or
suppress the revolutionary new political and cultural press which
served the new literacy. This did much to change taste, and ways of
thinking and feeling. The book brings thus not only brings together
a great deal of unusual and otherwise inaccessible illustration, it
also offers a multi-facetted discussion of how the material was
received, and its longer-term cultural influences.The new edition
also includes a survey of studies in popular culture including song
(A.L. Lloyd); the popular arts (Barbara Jones, Marx and Lambert,
Panofsky, Gombrich); cartoons and graphic satire (Meisel,
Maidment); the conventions and influence of popular melodrama and
woodcuts, and a case study of the fiction of G.W.M. Reynolds. Also,
a list of relevant web sites.
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