1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781018503321

Autore

Strahan Randall

Titolo

Leading representatives [[electronic resource] ] : the agency of leaders in the politics of the U.S. House / / Randall Strahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8018-9898-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Interpreting American politics

Disciplina

328.73/0762

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Leading representatives -- Explaining Congressional leadership -- Henry Clay : the unionist as speaker -- Thomas Reed : the responsible partisan as speaker -- Newt Gingrich: the transformative leader as speaker -- Conclusion : Congressional leadership and its limits -- Notes -- References -- Tables and figures.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963923803321

Autore

Thomas Julia <1971->

Titolo

Pictorial Victorians : the inscription of values in word and image / / Julia Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8214-4137-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

741.6/4/094109034

Soggetti

Illustration of books, Victorian - Great Britain

Illustration of books - Great Britain - History - 19th century

National characteristics in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

War and peace: word and image in mid-Victorian culture -- Picturing slavery: Uncle Tom's cabin and its early illustrations -- Pictures, poems, politics: illustrating Tennyson -- Crinolineomania: Punch's female malady -- Nation and narration: the Englishness of Victorian narrative painting -- Tale of two stories: Joseph Noel Paton's In memoriam -- Telling tales: adultery and maternity in past and present.

Sommario/riassunto

The Victorians were image obsessed. The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture industry. Technological advances enabled the Victorians to adorn with images the pages of their books and the walls of their homes. But this was not a wholly visual culture. Pictorial Victorians focuses on two of the most popular mid-nineteenth-century genres-illustration and narrative painting-that blurred the line between the visual and textual. Illustration negotiated text and image on the printed page, while narrative painting juxtaposed the two media in its formulation of pictorial stories. Author Julia Thomas reassesses mid-nineteenth-century values in the light of this interplay. The dialogue between word and image generates meanings that are intimately related to the Victorians' image of themselves. Illustrations in Victorian publications and the narrative scenes that lined the walls of the Royal Academy reveal the Victorians' ideas about the world in which they lived and their notions of gender, class, and race. Pictorial Victorians surveys a



range of material, from representations of the crinoline, to the illustrations that accompanied Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and Tennyson's poetry, to paintings of adultery. It demonstrates that the space between text and image is one in which values are both constructed and questioned.