Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order, 1820-50 (Paperback)

Offering an overview of the marketplace for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the interest and importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It considers the impact on the development of print culture of the emergent, but soon widespread, use of lithography and wood engraving, both capable of integrating texts and images cheaply and imaginatively on the printed page. Drawing on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures, this book traces the ways in which Regency and early Victorian visual humour both sustains some of the characteristics of an earlier caricature tradition while also beginning to develop new ways of analysing and coping with social change through comic forms and genres. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2017
First published:	2013
Authors:	Brian Maidment
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-2287-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	1-5261-2287-1
Barcode:	9781526122872

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