"Punch": The Lively Youth of a British Institution, 1841-51 (Studies in Victorian Life & Literature) - Hardcover

Altick, Richard D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814207103 ISBN 13: 9780814207109

Publisher: Ohio State University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This work explores systematically and in depth, the first ten years of Punch, the popular Victorian periodical, especially as it mirrored the interests and mind-set of its predominantly middle-class audience. Richard D. Altick shows how Punch's editorial and pictorial contents drew from numerous streams of popular and middlebrow culture, which it blended into a distinctive weekly product, often imitated but never equalled. At every point, Altick describes Punch's humorous treatment of events, public personalities, and current issues - frivolous or serious - against a background of historical evidence culled from the London Times and other contemporary documents.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0814207103
• ISBN 13: 9780814207109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 800