Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520248144)

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.

Author: Joshua Brown
ISBN-10: 0520248147
ISBN-13: 9780520248144
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/19/2006
Pages: 383
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.94d