Radical Satire and Print Culture, 1790-1822

by Marcus Wood

Overview

Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822 focuses on the work produced collaboratively between 1816 and 1822 by the poet and radical journalist William Hone and the brilliant young graphic satirist George Cruikshank. Wood provides a much needed analytical framework for Regency radical satire uncovering a set of new sources and previously unknown cultural contexts for Hone and Cruikshank's work, which is shown to combine modernity and tradition in thrilling ways. Entertaining and original, this is an important contribution to the study of radical satire, which sheds new light on the relations between popular political authors and graphic artists and the major Romantic writers of the period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198112785
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/15/1994
Series:	Oxford English Monographs
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.63(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

University of the West Indies, Mona

Editorial Reviews

"Historians of British popular radicalism have paid too little attention to the satiric element: to how radicals used humor to undermine established authority. Marcus Wood has done much to redress this deficiency..."—American Historical Review

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