Brian Maidment is Emeritus Professor of the History of Print in the English Department at Liverpool John Moores University and an ex-president of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. His books include The Poorhouse Fugitives (1987), Reading Popular Prints (1996), Dusty Bob: A Cultural History of Dustmen (2007) and Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order 1820-1850 (2013). He is currently completing a book on magazine illustration between 1820 and 1840.

Robert Seymour and Nineteenth Century Print Culture is the first book length study of the original illustrator of Dickens's Pickwick Papers.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Getting to know Seymour

Chapter 2. Seymour and the publishers

Chapter 3. Social satires: the march of intellect and other social transformations

Chapter 4. The Comic Magazine (1832-1834)

Chapter 5. New Readings of Old Authors (1832-1834)

Chapter 6. The Humorous Sketches and their Victorian afterlife

Chapter 7. Coda: reading Pickwick through Seymour

Appendix 1 - Chronological listing of titles of books, periodials and sequences of prints illustrated by Robert Seymour

Appendix 2 - A chronological list of the main editions of Seymour's Sketches

Bibliography

Index