The Politics of Parody: A Literary History of Caricature, 1760–1830 (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
History, Criticism
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of… the relationship between literature and visual satire in this period, David Taylor&’s book explores how great texts, seen through the lens of visual parody, shape how we understand the political world. It offers a fascinating, novel approach to literary history.
Title Details
ISBN
9780300235593
Publisher
Yale University Press
Copyright Date
2018
Book number
6514319