Beyond the Lines : Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America / Joshua Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Joshua, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illustrated periodicals.

Illustrated periodicals--United States--History--19th century.

Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.) : 19 illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2006.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this wonderfully illustrated book, Joshua Brown shows that the wood engravings in the illustrated newspapers of Gilded Age America were more than a quaint predecessor to our own sophisticated media. As he tells the history and traces the influence of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, with relevant asides to Harper's Weekly, the New York Daily Graphic, and others, Brown recaptures the complexity and richness of pictorial reporting. He finds these images to be significant barometers for gauging how the general public perceived pivotal events and crises--the Civil War, Reconstruction, important labor battles, and more. This book is the best available source on the pictorial riches of Frank Leslie's newspaper and the only study to situate these images fully within the social context of Gilded Age America. Beyond the Lines illuminates the role of illustration in nineteenth-century America and gives us a new look at how the social milieu shaped the practice of illustrated journalism and was in turn shaped by it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Terms

Introduction

1. Pictorial Journalism in Antebellum America

2. Illustrating the News

3. Constructing Representation, 1866-77

4. Balancing Act, 1866-77

5. Reconstructing Representation, 1866-77

6. Balancing the Unbalanceable, 1878-89

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520939745

0520939743

OCLC:

1153462291