The Business Of Satirical Prints In Late Georgian England

Author : James Baker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319499895

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The Business of Satirical Prints in Late-Georgian England by James Baker Pdf

This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who made those prints, and the businesses that sold them. It examines how these objects were made, how they were sold, and how both the complexity of the production process and the necessity to sell shaped and constrained the satiric content these objects contained. It argues that production, sale, and environment are crucial to understanding late-Georgian satirical prints. A majority of these prints were, after all, published in London and were therefore woven into the commercial culture of the Great Wen. Because of this city and its culture, the activities of the many individuals involved in transforming a single satirical design into a saleable and commercially viable object were underpinned by a nexus of making, selling, and consumption. Neglecting any one part of this nexus does a disservice both to the late-Georgian satirical print, these most beloved objects of British art, and to the story of their late-Georgian apotheosis – a story that James Baker develops not through the designs these objects contained, but rather through those objects and the designs they contained in the making.

Author : Olivia Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009274210

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Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel by Olivia Ferguson Pdf

What was caricature to novelists in the Romantic period? Why does Jane Austen call Mr Dashwood's wife 'a strong caricature of himself'? Why does Mary Shelley describe the body of Frankenstein's creature as 'in proportion', but then 'distorted in its proportions' - and does caricature have anything to do with it? This book answers those questions, shifting our understanding of 'caricature' as a literary-critical term in the decades when 'the English novel' was first defined and canonised as a distinct literary entity. Novels incorporated caricature talk and anti-caricature rhetoric to tell readers what different realisms purported to show them. Recovering the period's concept of caricature, Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel sheds light on formal realism's self-reflexivity about the 'caricature' of artifice, exaggeration and imagination. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Nicholas Chare,Mitchell B. Frank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000226355

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History and Art History by Nicholas Chare,Mitchell B. Frank Pdf

Through a series of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary interventions, leading international scholars of history and art history explore ways in which the study of images enhances knowledge of the past and informs our understanding of the present. Spanning a diverse range of time periods and places, the contributions cumulatively showcase ways in which ongoing dialogue between history and art history raises important aesthetic, ethical and political questions for the disciplines. The volume fosters a methodological awareness that enriches exchanges across these distinct fields of knowledge. This innovative book will be of interest to scholars in art history, cultural studies, history, visual culture and historiography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : English wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : 0982615612

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Bawdy Brits & West End Wit by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cristina S. Martinez,Cynthia E. Roman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108844772

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Female Printmakers, Printsellers and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century by Cristina S. Martinez,Cynthia E. Roman Pdf

Integrates the vital contributions of women as printmakers, printsellers and print publishers into the history of eighteenth-century art.

Author : Gillian Williamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350253582

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Lodgers, Landlords, and Landladies in Georgian London by Gillian Williamson Pdf

A large proportion of London's population lived in lodgings during the long 18th century, many of whom recorded their experiences. In this fascinating study, Gillian Williamson examines these experiences, recorded in correspondences and autobiographies, to offer unseen insights into the social lives of Londoners in this period, and the practice of lodging in Georgian London. Williamson draws from an impressive array of sources, archives, newspapers, OBSP trials and literary representations to offer a thorough examination of lodging in London, to show how lodging and lodging houses sustained the economy of London during this time. Williamson offers a fascinating insight into the role lodging houses played as the facilitators of encounters and interactions, which offers an illuminating depiction of social relations beyond the family. The result is an important contribution to current historiography, of interest to historians of Britain in the long 18th century.

Author : Ian Haywood
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030346591

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The Rise of Victorian Caricature by Ian Haywood Pdf

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.

Author : Amanda Lahikainen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781644532706

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Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire by Amanda Lahikainen Pdf

This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Asking how Britons learned to value both graphic art and money, the book makes surprising connections between two types of engraved images that grew in popularity and influence during this time. Graphic satire grew in visual risk-taking, while paper money became a more standard carrier of financial value, courting controversy as a medium, moral problem, and factor in inflation. Through analysis of satirical prints, as well as case studies of monetary satires beyond London, this book demonstrates several key ways that cultures attach value to printed paper, accepting it as social reality and institutional fact. Thus, satirical banknotes were objects that broke down the distinction between paper money and graphic satire ​altogether.

Author : Hannah Moss,Joe Bray
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781399500425

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Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts by Hannah Moss,Joe Bray Pdf

Jane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts considers how Austen represents the arts in her writing, from her juvenilia to her mature novels. The thirty-three original chapters in this Companion cover the full range of Austen's engagement with the arts, including the silhouette and the caricature, crafts, theatre, fashion, music and dance, together with the artistic potential of both interior and exterior spaces. This volume also explores her artistic afterlives in creative re-imaginings across different media, including adaptations and transpositions in film, television, theatre, digital platforms and games.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004694729

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The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces by Anonim Pdf

This essay collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas – the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces. The contents of pockets may prove a surer index to their owner’s real thoughts than anything they say; a piece of furniture with ingenious mechanisms created to conceal secrets may also reveal someone’s attempts to break in and thus give away as much as it holds. Though the book’s focus is on particular material or imagined objects, taken as a whole it exemplifies a range of interdisciplinary encounters between history, literary criticism, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, criminology, archival studies, museology and curating, and women’s studies.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781398101708

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England in the Age of Dickens by Jeremy Black Pdf

Life, Society, Family, Economy, and Politics in early and mid-Victorian England mediated through the life and writings of arguably the nation's greatest novelist.

Author : Elisabeth Gernerd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350293403

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The Modern Venus by Elisabeth Gernerd Pdf

From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the 18th-century woman's wardrobe. They not only created her shape, but expressed her character, sociability, fashionability, and even political allegiances. These so-called ephemeral flights of fashion were not peripheral and supplementary, but highly charged artefacts, acting as cultural currency in contemporary society. The Modern Venus highlights the significance of these elements of a woman's wardrobe in 1770s and 1780s Britain and the Atlantic World, and shows how they played their part in transforming fashionable dress when this was expanding to new heights and volumes. Dissecting the female silhouette into regions of the body and types of dress and shifting away from a broad-sweeping stylistic evolution, this book explores these potent players within the woman's armoury. Marrying material, archival and visual approaches to dress history, and drawing on a rich range of sources – including painted portraiture, satirical prints, diaries, memoirs – The Modern Venus unpacks dress as a medium and mediator in women's lives. It demonstrates the importance of these overlooked garments in defining not just a woman's silhouette, but also her social and cultural situation, and thereby shapes our understanding of late 18th-century life. With over 125 color images, The Modern Venus is a remarkable resource for scholars, students and costume lovers alike.

Author : Catherine Curzon
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473872530

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The Scandal of George III's Court by Catherine Curzon Pdf

From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder or a royal mistress sell commissions to the highest bidders, and what was the truth behind George III's supposed secret marriage to a pretty Quaker?With everything from illegitimate children to illegal marriages, dead valets and equerries sneaking about the palace by candlelight, these eyebrow-raising tales from the reign of George III prove that the highest of births is no guarantee of good behavior. Prepare to meet some shocking ladies, some shameless gentlemen and some politicians who really should know better. So tighten your stays, hoist up your breeches and prepare for a gallop through some of the most shocking royal scandals from the court of George III's court. You'll never look at a king in the same way again…

Author : Matthew McCormack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191008665

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Embodying the Militia in Georgian England by Matthew McCormack Pdf

The militia was a key institution in Georgian England, and arguably one that was very characteristic of its age. A 'militia' is an informal military organisation made up of part-time civilians rather than professionals. As an island, Britain had historically relied on forces of this type for home defence, but threats of a French invasion during the Seven Years War (1756-63) highlighted that the militia had fallen into disrepair and prompted calls for its revival. In this important new study, Matthew McCormack re-examines the debates on the militia, and argues that this military reform was informed and driven by concerns about politics, nationalism, and gender. The militia tells us a great deal about the political culture of the eighteenth century, which was suspicious of professional armies and executive power, and which placed great emphasis on the liberties and masculine attributes of the ordinary citizen. Its advocates even suggested that mass military service would prompt a reinvigoration of English masculinity. The Militia Act passed into law in 1757. From this date until the New Militia's slow demise after the Napoleonic Wars, Embodying the Militia in Georgian England considers civilian men's experience of military service. How was the militia 'embodied' - both in the contemporary sense of assembling for service, and also as a gendered bodily experience? Chapters explore questions such as physical training, masculine honour, material culture, self-identity, and citizenship. As such, the volume's interdisciplinary approaches offer new perspectives on the history of war.

Author : William Tullett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192582447

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Smell in Eighteenth-Century England by William Tullett Pdf

In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of eighteenth-century England. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them, from paint and perfume to onions and farts. In doing so, the study challenges a popular, influential, and often cited narrative. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England is not a tale of the medicalization and deodorization of English olfactory culture. Instead, Tullett demonstrates that it was a new recognition of smell's asocial-sociability, and its capacity to create atmospheres of uncomfortable intimacy, that transformed the relationship between the senses and society.