BOBC

WIKINDX Resources  

Morgan, David. "The Crown and the Crowd: Sublimations of Monarchy in Georgian Satirical Prints." European Comic Art 9.(2016): 63–87. 
Added by: joachim (10/08/2016, 08:59)   Last edited by: joachim (27/11/2019, 15:47)
Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
Peer reviewed
DOI: 10.3167/eca.2016.090104
BibTeX citation key: Morgan2016
Email resource to friend
View all bibliographic details
Categories: General
Keywords: Caricature, Politics, Randformen des Comics, Satire, United Kingdom
Creators: Morgan
Collection: European Comic Art
Views: 18/563
Attachments  
Abstract
This article attempts to account for an apparently wholesale reversal in the visual satirical treatment of the British Crown and its incumbents during the later Georgian and Victorian eras. Using a range of prints from across the Georgian era, some of which have not hitherto been widely published, I argue that the rise of modern parliamentary politics on the one hand, and the threat of war and invasion on the other, created a satirical environment in which the institution of the Crown became effectively sublimated in terms of popular perception; at the same time, the figure of the king himself, his ‘body natural’, became dissociated from the institution that he nominally embodied, such that he could safely be visually lampooned in the manner associated with Gillray and other visual satirists of his generation.
  
WIKINDX 6.8.2 | Total resources: 14513 | Username: -- | Bibliography: WIKINDX Master Bibliography | Style: Modern Language Association (MLA)