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  1. Pictures of poverty
    the works of George R. Sims and their screen adaptations.
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  John Libbey Publishing, Ltd., Herts, United Kingdom

    From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in 'documentary' photographs taken in the slums. London and its street life were the preferred setting for George Robert Sims's rousing ballads and the numerous magic lantern slide series and silent films based on them. Sims was a popular journalist and dramatist, whose articles, short stories, theatre plays and ballads discussed overcrowding, drunkenness, prostitution and child poverty in dramatic and heroic episodes from the lives and deaths of the poor. Richly illustrated and drawing from many previously unknown sources, Pictures of Poverty is a comprehensive account of the representation of poverty throughout the Victorian period, whether disseminated in newspapers, illustrated books and lectures, presented on the theatre stage or projected on the screen in magic lantern and film performances. Detailed case studies reveal the intermedial context of these popular pictures of poverty and their mobility across genres. With versatile author George R. Sims as the starting point, this study explores the influence of visual media in historical discourses about poverty and the highly controversial role of the Victorian state in poor relief

     

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  2. Dickens and democracy in the age of paper
    representing the people
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY

    This work examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    This work examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy - when the British government was under enormous political pressure to expand the franchise beyond a narrow band of male landowners. Contending that fiction and the literature of Parliament interacted at a host of levels - jostling one another in the same bookshops - it reads Dickens's novels in tandem with blue books, the practice texts of shorthand manuals, and Dickens's journalism

     

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  3. The gender of photography
    how masculine and feminine values shaped the history of nineteenth-century photography
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London ; New York

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
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  4. The gender of photography
    how masculine and feminine values shaped the history of nineteenth-century photography
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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  5. The gender of photography
    how masculine and feminine values shaped the history of nineteenth-century photography
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London ; New York

    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    Universität der Künste Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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  6. Pictures of poverty
    the works of George R. Sims and their screen adaptations.
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  John Libbey Publishing, Ltd., Herts, United Kingdom

    From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in... more

    Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Universitätsbibliothek
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    From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in 'documentary' photographs taken in the slums. London and its street life were the preferred setting for George Robert Sims's rousing ballads and the numerous magic lantern slide series and silent films based on them. Sims was a popular journalist and dramatist, whose articles, short stories, theatre plays and ballads discussed overcrowding, drunkenness, prostitution and child poverty in dramatic and heroic episodes from the lives and deaths of the poor. Richly illustrated and drawing from many previously unknown sources, Pictures of Poverty is a comprehensive account of the representation of poverty throughout the Victorian period, whether disseminated in newspapers, illustrated books and lectures, presented on the theatre stage or projected on the screen in magic lantern and film performances. Detailed case studies reveal the intermedial context of these popular pictures of poverty and their mobility across genres. With versatile author George R. Sims as the starting point, this study explores the influence of visual media in historical discourses about poverty and the highly controversial role of the Victorian state in poor relief

     

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