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Moores, John. "A Rousseauian Reading of Gillray’s National Conveniences." European Comic Art 6. (2013): 129–55. Added by: joachim (18/07/2013, 23:16) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.3167/eca.2013.060107 BibTeX citation key: Moores2013 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Early forms of comics, United Kingdom Creators: Moores Collection: European Comic Art |
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The German journal London und Paris called James Gillray ‘the foremost living artist in his genre, not only amongst Englishmen, but amongst all European nations’. Despite the scholarly attention he has attracted, many of Gillray’s individual works have yet to receive rigorous analysis. One such neglected print is National Conveniences (1796), assumed to be a crude, straightforward expression of national supremacy. However, a closer reading shows Gillray employing the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau both to undermine notions of English superiority and to assail a particular personal adversary. With this reading in mind, we can reassess references to Rousseau in Gillray’s other prints, and propose a new direction from which to approach his greater oeuvre.
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