The European illustrated press and the emergence of a transnational visual culture of the news, 1842-1870

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This book looks at the roots of a global visual news culture: the trade in illustrations of the news between European illustrated newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century. In the age of nationalism, we might suspect these publications to be filled with nationally produced content, supporting a national imagined community. However, the large-scale transnational trade in illustrations, which this book uncovers, points out that nineteenth-century news consumers already looked at the same world. By exchanging images, European illustrated newspapers provided them with a shared, transnational, experience. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Series Page......Page 3 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of figures......Page 8 List of tables......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 10 A Russian girl and a French illustrated newspaper......Page 12 The first visual news medium?......Page 15 Historiography: in a national context......Page 17 Theory: the transnational nineteenth-century illustrated press......Page 20 Methodology: working in between print and digital formats......Page 22 Introduction......Page 32 Historiography and methodology: readership and digital newspaper archives......Page 33 Different audiences......Page 34 Conclusion......Page 68 Introduction......Page 78 Historiography: transnational networks......Page 79 Methodology: networks......Page 82 Preconditions of the transnational trade in illustrations......Page 83 Three phases of the transnational trade in illustrations of the news......Page 102 Conclusion......Page 127 Introduction......Page 142 Historiography: the Crimean War and visual reportage......Page 143 Methodology......Page 146 The Crimean War......Page 147 Cassell’s Illustrated Family Paper......Page 149 The original corpus......Page 154 French illustrations in Cassell’s Illustrated Family Paper......Page 164 Conclusion......Page 173 Introduction......Page 182 Historiography......Page 184 Methodology......Page 185 The Universal Exposition of 1867......Page 187 The transnational network......Page 190 Mediation......Page 201 Conclusion......Page 218 Conclusion......Page 229 Bibliography......Page 235 Index......Page 246