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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483761603321

Autore

Haywood Ian

Titolo

The Rise of Victorian Caricature [[electronic resource] /] / by Ian Haywood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-34659-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, , 2634-6494

Disciplina

741.5

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 19th century

British literature

Comic books, strips, etc

Nineteenth-Century Literature

British and Irish Literature

Comics Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Re-forming caricature: political crisis and the reinvention of the satirical image 1830–1832 -- 3. Everybody’s caricature: Charles Jameson Grant -- 4. The Reform Hurricane: radical satirical broadsheets -- 5. The Chartist Carnival -- 6. Laughing at Victoria: A Queen in Caricature.

Sommario/riassunto

This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in the 1840s. With a telling selection of illustrations, this book deploys the techniques of close reading and political contextualization to demonstrate the aesthetic and ideological clout of a neglected tranche of satirical prints and periodicals dismissed as ineffectual by historians or distasteful by contemporaries. The prime exhibits are the work of Robert Seymour and C.J. Grant giving acerbic comic edge to the case for reform against class and state oppression and the excesses of the monarchical regime under the young Queen Victoria.