The politics of parody : a literary history of caricature, 1760-1830 / David Francis Taylor.
- Taylor, David Francis
- Date:
- [2018]
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Description
"This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of the relationship between literature and visual satire in this period. David Taylor's book explores how great texts, seen through the lens of visual parody, shape how we understand the political world."--Back cover.
Publication/Creation
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Physical description
xii, 304 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Notes
Contains images from the Wellcome Collection.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-285) and index.
Contents
Pt. One. Prints, parody, and the political public -- 1.The Literariness of graphic satire -- 2.Looking, literacy, and the printshop window -- Pt. Two. Plotting politics -- 3.The Tempest; or, the disenchanted island -- 4.Macbeth as political comedy -- 5.Paradise Lost, from the sublime to the ridiculous -- 6.Gulliver goes to war -- 7.Harlequin Napoleon; or, what literature isn't.
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Location Status History of MedicineZHBC.41.AA7-8Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780300223750