Peter W Sinnema: 3 books
The Wake of Wellington
Englishness in 1852
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Soldier, hero, and politician, the Duke of Wellington is one of the best-known figures of nineteenth-century England. From his victory at Waterloo over Napoleon in 1815, he rose to become prime minister of his country. But Peter Sinnema finds equal fascination in Victorian England's response to the...
Drawing on the Victorians
The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to...
Dynamics of the Pictured Page
Representing the Nation in the "Illustrated London News"
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Originally published in 1998, Dynamics of the Pictured Page provides a critical study of the world's first regularly illustrated newspaper, the Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram in 1842. Focusing on the first decade of this enormously influential weekly, this book situates the ILN...