Download or read book The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-1860 written by Patricia Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1790 and 1860 the widening dissemination of print led to the transformation and unprecedented expansion of popular cultural experience; Patricia Anderson advances the challenging central argument that an essentially modern mass culture had begun to develop as early as 1840. This study questions the adequacy of simplistic concepts of class and culture. It combines modern cultural theory and historical evidence to demonstrate how people of all kinds, especially workers and women, interacted with the printed image and helped to shape an increasingly visual mass culture. In doing so, it offers a new way to look at and extract meaning from nineteenth-century popular illustration.