Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America
first edition Softcover
2006 · Berkeley and Los Angeles
by Brown, Joshua
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. First paperback printing. Softcover. VG+. BW illus. wraps, 361 pp., BW illus. Considers the way American daily life was reported in the illustrated newspapers of the late 1800s. "Whatever their aesthetic strengths or weaknesses, the illustrated weeklies were an arena for contending representations of Gilded Age life, their wood-engraved pictures constituted by a complicated social negotiation among artists, editors, engravers, and readers. They were as changeable and volatile as the times they depicted, their meanings buffeted by crisis and shaped by ways of producing and viewing far different from those of the present." (intro). (Inventory #: 162378)