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Maidment, Brian. Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order, 1820–50. Manchester, New York: Manchester Univ. Press, 2013. Added by: joachim (4/8/14, 9:23 AM) |
Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-0-7190-7526-1 BibTeX citation key: Maidment2013 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Caricature, Early forms of comics, Humor, Intermediality, Satire, Social criticism, Visual Culture Creators: Maidment Publisher: Manchester Univ. Press (Manchester, New York) |
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Abstract |
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 analyzing and coping with social change through comic forms and genres.
Table of Contents List of illustrations (vi) Part 1. Regency and early Victorian graphic humour – modes and markets Part 2 The social vision of Regency and early Victorian comic visual culture Appendix: Satirical title pages 1832–1835 (229) |