Politics Personified

Henry Miller is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British History at the University of Manchester

‘In illuminating a path through the visual politics of this period, the book offers a useful bridge between art-historical and historical studies on this period. It is to be warmly welcomed and recommended.’Richard A. Gaunt, University of Nottingham, The Journal of the historical association‘Miller has produced a scholarly, readable and accomplished book which effectively maps out virtually the whole terrain of political imagery from out-of doors radical and constituency politics, to the houses of parliament and Number 10. It will be widely read by all students of Victorian culture, political or otherwise, and doubtless remain the standard work on the subject for some time to come.’Simon Morgan, Leeds Beckett University, The Parliamentary History 2017

• Introduction1. The visual culture of reform, 1830–322. Party politics and portraiture, 1832–463. Radical visual culture: from caricature to portraiture4. Reforming pantheons: political group portraiture and history painting5. Representing the representatives: MPs and portraiture6. Palmerston and his rivals7. Disraeli, Gladstone and the personification of party, 1868–80ConclusionSelect bibliographyIndex