Romanticism and Caricature

Ian Haywood (Roehampton University, London)

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Cambridge University Press
01 October 2015

Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Ian Haywood explores the 'Golden Age' of caricature through the close reading of key, iconic prints by artists including James Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson. This approach both illuminates the visual and ideological complexity of graphic satire and demonstrates how this art form transformed Romantic-era politics into a unique and compelling spectacle of corruption, monstrosity and resistance. New light is cast on major Romantic controversies including the 'revolution debate' of the 1790s, the impact of Thomas Paine's 'infidel' Age of Reason, the introduction of paper money and the resulting explosion of executions for forgery, the propaganda campaign against Napoleon, the revolution in Spain, the Peterloo massacre, the Queen Caroline scandal, and the Reform Bill crisis. Overall, the volume offers important new insights into the relationship between art, satire and politics in a key period of history.

By: Ian Haywood (Roehampton University London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 103
Dimensions: Height: 247mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781107620681
ISBN 10: 1107620686
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 01 October 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: the recording angel; 1. Milton's monsters. James Gillray, Sin, Death and the Devil (1792); 2. Lethal money: forgery and the Romantic credit crisis. James Gillray, Midas (1797), George Cruikshank and William Hone, Bank Restriction Note (1819); 3. The aesthetics of conspiracy. James Gillray, Exhibition of a Democratic Transparency (1799); 4. The spectral tyrant: Napoleon and the English dance of death. Thomas Rowlandson, The Two Kings of Terror (1813); 5. The spectropolitics of Romantic infidelism. George Cruikshank, The Age of Reason (1819); 6. The British inquisition. George Cruikshank and William Hone, Damnable Association (1821); 7. The return of the repressed: Henry Hunt and the Reform Bill crisis. William Heath/Charles Jameson Grant, Matchless Eloquence (1831).

Ian Haywood is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Romanticism at the University of Roehampton. He co-edited, with John Seed, The Gordon Riots: Politics, Culture and Insurrection in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2012).

Reviews for Romanticism and Caricature

'A compelling account of political caricature in the Romantic period ... Ian Haywood's book offers an inventive and hugely informative tour of the genre, making a welcome contribution to a growing field.' The Times Literary Supplement '... original and well-rounded discussions which build on our current understanding of those subjects ...' Richard A. Gaunt, The BARS Review