{"product_id":"9780814252772","title":"The Humours of Parliament: Harry Furniss's View of Late-Victorian Political Culture","description":"Harry Furniss (1854-1925), a leading contributor to Punch and other important illustrated magazines, was arguably the most significant political caricaturist and illustrator of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. He was widely celebrated in his time, and his cartoons helped to define the political world in the public mind. \u003ci\u003eThe Humours of Parliament\u003c\/i\u003e was Furniss's hugely successful illustrated lecture that he staged throughout the U.K., North America, and Australia during the 1890s. Entertaining his audiences with anecdotes, mimicry, and jokes-along with the spectacle of more than 100 magic lantern slides-Furniss gave his audiences an insider's view of the mysterious workings of Parliament and the leading political personalities of the day, such as Gladstone, Balfour, and Chamberlain.\u003cp\u003eReproducing some 150 images drawn from Furniss's extensive graphic work, \u003ci\u003eThe Humours of Parliament: Harry Furniss's View of Late-Victorian Political Culture,\u003c\/i\u003e edited and with an introduction by Gareth Cordery and Joseph S. Meisel, presents Furniss's unpublished lecture text for the first time. The extensive introduction places the show in its biographical, political, and performative contexts. Cordery and Meisel's volume therefore both documents a pivotal moment in British political and social history and provides a rare case study of an important yet little studied nineteenth-century performance genre: the illustrated platform lecture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGareth Cordery\u003c\/b\u003e is a former senior adjunct fellow in the School of Humanities, University of Canterbury (New Zealand). \u003cb\u003eJoseph S. Meisel\u003c\/b\u003e is Deputy Provost, Brown University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030623600880,"sku":"9780814252772","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814252772_p0.jpg?v=1763745539","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814252772","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}