Caricature unmasked : irony, authenticity, and individualism in eighteenth-century English prints

Caricature unmasked : irony, authenticity, and individualism in eighteenth-century English prints

Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2008.

159 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

741.5941 R248 2008

(OCoLC)141187912

The University of Delaware Press studies in seventeeth- and eighteenth- century art and culture
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154) and index.
Contents: Emblematism and Ideal Publicness -- The Emblematic Worldview -- Emblems: Ways of Reading -- Publicness and Personal Identity -- The Values of Publicness: Disinterestedness, Rationality, and Anonymity -- Character or Caricature? -- The 1740s: The Patriot Unmasked -- Hogarth's Natural Characters -- The Gentleman Caricaturist: George Townshend -- The Backlash Against Caricature: The Case of John Wilkes -- Caricature and Authenticity: Artifice, Masculinity, and the Macaroni -- Macaronis and Politeness -- Caricaturing the Macaroni -- West's Death of Wolfe and Reynolds's Portraits "As'' -- Authentic Eccentricity -- Caricature and Individualism: The Crisis in Representation -- Unmasking American Licentiousness -- Crises of Representation: Popular Sovereignty and Virtual Representation -- Physiognomy, Rhetoric, and the Search for Natural Language -- Caricature and Irony: Aestheticism, Embodiment, and Subjectivity -- The Aestheticization of Political Prints -- Irony and Unmasking -- Embodying the Nation -- Inventing John Bull -- Caricature: A Case Study of the Butcher-Kissing Duchess -- Epilogue: The Englishness of Caricature in Revolutionary France.
L2008M200

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