The story of illustration
Setting the stage: early modern printing and publishing
The rise of reading and the visualization of literature
Conflict in the news: the illustrated press
Advertising, consumer culture, and domestic life
Ideological battlefields: persuasion and propaganda
Desire illustrated: new women, modern men, and popular performance
Picturing peoples: race-thinking and representation
Telling stories: illustration, history, and memory
Decorating childhood: literacy, learning, pleasure, and control
Illustration as counterculture: Freedom, advocacy, and dissent
Late modern reading: paragraphs, panels, and pixels.
