A lively and colourful study of the 'Golden Age' of caricature. Detailed interpretations of key prints show how artists, including James Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson, transformed Romantic-era politics into a unique and compelling spectacle of corruption, monstrosity and resistance.
A lively and colourful study of the 'Golden Age' of caricature. Detailed interpretations of key prints show how artists, including James Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson, transformed Romantic-era politics into a unique and compelling spectacle of corruption, monstrosity and resistance.
Ian Haywood is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Romanticism at the University of Roehampton. He co-edited, with John Seed, The Gordon Riots: Politics, Culture and Insurrection in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2012).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: the recording angel; 1. Milton's monsters. James Gillray Sin Death and the Devil (1792); 2. Lethal money: forgery and the Romantic credit crisis. James Gillray Midas (1797) George Cruikshank and William Hone Bank Restriction Note (1819); 3. The aesthetics of conspiracy. James Gillray Exhibition of a Democratic Transparency (1799); 4. The spectral tyrant: Napoleon and the English dance of death. Thomas Rowlandson The Two Kings of Terror (1813); 5. The spectropolitics of Romantic infidelism. George Cruikshank The Age of Reason (1819); 6. The British inquisition. George Cruikshank and William Hone Damnable Association (1821); 7. The return of the repressed: Henry Hunt and the Reform Bill crisis. William Heath/Charles Jameson Grant Matchless Eloquence (1831).
Introduction: the recording angel; 1. Milton's monsters. James Gillray Sin Death and the Devil (1792); 2. Lethal money: forgery and the Romantic credit crisis. James Gillray Midas (1797) George Cruikshank and William Hone Bank Restriction Note (1819); 3. The aesthetics of conspiracy. James Gillray Exhibition of a Democratic Transparency (1799); 4. The spectral tyrant: Napoleon and the English dance of death. Thomas Rowlandson The Two Kings of Terror (1813); 5. The spectropolitics of Romantic infidelism. George Cruikshank The Age of Reason (1819); 6. The British inquisition. George Cruikshank and William Hone Damnable Association (1821); 7. The return of the repressed: Henry Hunt and the Reform Bill crisis. William Heath/Charles Jameson Grant Matchless Eloquence (1831).
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