ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|46 pages
Readers all over the world
The audiences of the Illustrated London News, l’Illustration, and the Illustrirte Zeitung, 1842–1870
chapter 3|40 pages
Foreign images of war
L’Illustration’s images of the Crimean War in Cassell’s Illustrated Family Paper
chapter 4|47 pages
Images of the world
The transnational trade in illustrations and the visual representation of the Universal Exposition of 1867
