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Romanticism and caRicatuRe ian Haywood explores the ‘Golden age’ of caricature through the close read- ing of key, iconic prints by artists including James Gillray, George and Robert cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson. This approach both illuminates the vis- ual 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. 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). CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Founding editor Professor marilyn Butler, University of Oxford General editor Professor James chandler, University of Chicago Editorial Board John Barrell, University of York Paul Hamilton, University of London mary Jacobus, University of Cambridge claudia Johnson, Princeton University alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara Jerome mcGann, University of Virginia david simpson, University of California, Davis This series aims to foster the best new work in one of the most challenging fields within english literary studies. From the early 1780s to the early 1830s a formidable array of talented men and women took to literary composition, not just in poetry, which some of them famously transformed, but in many modes of writing. The expansion of publishing created new opportunities for writers, and the political stakes of what they wrote were raised again by what wordsworth called those ‘great national events’ that were ‘almost daily taking place’: the French Revolution, the napoleonic and american wars, urbanisation, industrialisation, religious revival, an expanded empire abroad and the reform movement at home. This was an enormous ambition, even when it pretended otherwise. The relations between science, philosophy, religion and literature were reworked in texts such as Frankenstein and Biographia Literaria; gender relations in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Don Juan; journalism by cobbett and Hazlitt; poetic form, content and style by the Lake school and the cockney school. outside shakespeare studies, probably no body of writing has produced such a wealth of comment or done so much to shape the responses of modern criticism. This indeed is the period that saw the emergence of those notions of ‘literature’ and of literary history, especially national literary history, on which modern scholarship in english has been founded. The categories produced by Romanticism have also been challenged by recent historicist arguments. The task of the series is to engage both with a challenging corpus of Romantic writings and with the changing field of criticism they have helped to shape. as with other literary series published by cambridge, this one will represent the work of both younger and more established scholars, on either side of the atlantic and elsewhere. For a complete list of titles published see end of book. Romanticism and ca RicatuRe ian Haywood university Printing House, cambridge cB2 8Bs, united Kingdom Published in the united states of america by cambridge university Press, new york cambridge university Press is part of the university of cambridge. it furthers the university’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107044210 © ian Haywood 2013 This publication is in copyright. subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of cambridge university Press. First published 2013 Printed and bound in the united Kingdom by cPi Group Ltd, croydon CR0 4yy A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Haywood, ian. Romanticism and caricature / ian Haywood. pages cm. – (cambridge studies in Romanticism) includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-1-107-04421-0 (hardback) 1. Romanticism. 2. caricature in literature. 3. english literature – 18th century – History and criticism. 4. english literature – 19th century – History and criticism. i. title. PR447.H38 2013 820.9′145–dc23 2013013493 isBn 978-1-107-04421-0 Hardback cambridge university Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of uRLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. To Sara and Ana

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