Radical Satire and Print Culture, 1790-1822

by Wood, Marcus

• ISBN13: 9780198112785
• ISBN10: 0198112785
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-09-15
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822 focuses on the work produced collaboratively between 1816 and 1822 by the poet and radical journalist William Hone and the brilliant young graphic satirist George Cruikshank. Wood provides a much needed analytical framework for Regency radical satire uncovering a set of new sources and previously unknown cultural contexts for Hone and Cruikshank's work, which is shown to combine modernity and tradition in thrilling ways. Entertaining and original, this is an important contribution to the study of radical satire, which sheds new light on the relations between popular political authors and graphic artists and the major Romantic writers of the period.

Author Biography

Marcus Wood is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Potatoes Speak for Themselves	p. 1
Advertising, Politics, and Parody 1710-1780	p. 18
Eaton, Spence, and Modes of Radical Subversion in the Revolutionary Era	p. 57
Radicals and the Law: Blasphemous Libels and the Three Trials of William Hone	p. 96
Radical Puffing: Parodic Advertising and Newspapers	p. 155
The Political House that Jack Built: Children's Publishing and Political Satire	p. 215
Conclusion: Satire, Radicalism, and Radical Romanticism	p. 264
Appendix: A Transcription of the Original Manuscript Version of The Late John Wilkes's Catechism of a Ministerial Member	p. 272
Bibliography	p. 291
Index	p. 313
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