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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813469503321

Autore

Cumming Carman

Titolo

Sketches from a young country : the images of Grip magazine / / Carman Cumming

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

1-282-04576-8

9786612045769

1-4426-7999-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

971.05/02/07

Soggetti

Press and politics - Canada - History - 19th century

Political culture - Canada - History - 19th century

Political culture - Ontario - History - 19th century

Canadian wit and humor, Pictorial - History

Livres numeriques.

History

Caricatures and cartoons.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Canada Politics and government 1867-1914

Canada Politics and government 1867-1914 Caricatures and cartoons

Ontario Politics and government 19th century

Ontario Politics and government 19th century Caricatures and cartoons

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes cartoons by J.W. Bengough published in Grip, 1873-1894.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The Texture of the Times -- 2. Bengough, Thompson, and Grip -- 3. Politics: The Seventies -- 4. Politics: The Eighties -- 5. Grip and the Press Wars -- 6. Race and Creed -- 7. Opening of the West -- 8. The Radical Times -- 9. Imperialism and Independence -- 10. Grip's Social Conscience -- 11. Conclusion: 'A Lesser Craft'.



Sommario/riassunto

Sketches from a Young Country is the first comprehensive study to evaluate this historically important magazine, to assess the motivations of its authors, and to set both in social and political context. Containing over a hundred of Bengough's cartoons, with captions to clarify contemporary references, and offering an assessment of Grip in relation to its British and American counterparts, Sketches from a Young Country makes an exciting contribution to popular history, Canadian politics, and the history of journalism.

The Canadian political and social discussion of the late nineteenth century owed a great deal to Grip, the satirical magazine that kept a vigilant eye on national affairs from 1873 to 1894. Illustrated and edited by an energetic, talented young reformer named John W. Bengough, Grip featured sketches, poetry, and political invective. Bengough's caricatures of dignitaries and his cartoons of political situations were supplemented in at least two periods by the acerbic commentary of socialist pioneer T. Phillips Thompson. Together, the two men provided a running account and critique of the era's attitudes on class, sex, race, and public policy. Bengough was part of a broad progressive alliance that linked farm and labour agitators with Christian intellectuals alarmed about the worst excesses of turn-of-the-century capitalism. Grip was an early, and righteous, crusader for this liberal, Protestant, reformist view.