The Humors of Parliament: Harry Furniss's View of Late-Victorian Political Culture

"In their introduction, Gareth Cordery and Joseph S. Meisel rightly describe Furniss as arguably the most significant and prolific British political cartoonist of the late Victorian and Edwardian era. Widely popular at the time, Furniss has been subsequently neglected. The editors show how Furniss embraced the technology of the period by taking advantage of the newly popular magic lantern, adapting his drawing style to suit techniques such as photo-processing and exploiting the potential of the lecture circuit overseas." --Colin Seymour-Ure, Emeritus Professor, University of Kent

The Humours of Parliament: Harry Furniss's View of Late-Victorian Political Culture constitutes a valuable addition to scholarship and to our knowledge of Victorian politics and culture. The text and images of Furniss's lectures offer a fascinating, entertaining, and often humorous view of how parliament and politics worked in late nineteenth-century Britain. This volume sheds light on the sometimes mystifying matter of what late Victorians found funny but also has important things to say about political communications and the history of parliament." --James Thompson, Bristol University