The Politics of Parody: A Literary History of Caricature, 1760-1830

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 lite...

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1. Verfasser: Taylor, David Francis (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven, CT Yale University Press [2018]
Schriftenreihe:The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
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Zusammenfassung: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. It offers a fascinating, novel approach to literary history
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource 76 b-w illus
ISBN:9780300235593

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