Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order, 1820–50

Brian Maidment (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2013
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-7526-1 (ISBN)

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In offering an overview of the market for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. Draws on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures. -- .

Offering an overview of the marketplace for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the interest and importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It considers the impact on the development of print culture of the emergent, but soon widespread, use of lithography and wood engraving, both capable of integrating texts and images cheaply and imaginatively on the printed page. Drawing on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures, this book traces the ways in which Regency and early Victorian visual humour both sustains some of the characteristics of an earlier caricature tradition while also beginning to develop new ways of analysing and coping with social change through comic forms and genres. -- .

Brian Maidment is Professor of the History of Print Culture in the English Department at Liverpool John Moores University -- .

Part 1: Regency and early Victorian graphic humour: Modes and markets
1 ‘Graphic bric-a-brac’? Approaching early nineteenth-century graphic humour
2 Regency visual culture in the market place
3 Continuity, change and innovation in Regency and early Victorian comic print culture
Part 2: The social vision of Regency and early Victorian comic visual culture
4 Reflections in a print shop window: the politics of the public image
5 Robert Seymour: a jobbing artist in the marketplace
6 The ‘march of intellect’ as a comic event: mockery, heroism and social change
7 Revisiting the Regency: Punch’s dustmen
Index -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2013
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, black & white
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7190-7526-2 / 0719075262
ISBN-13	978-0-7190-7526-1 / 9780719075261
Zustand	Neuware