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Defining John Bull - Political Caricature and National Identity in Late Georgian England (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Defining John Bull - Political Caricature and National Identity in Late Georgian England (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Late Georgian England was a period of great social and political
change, yet whether this was for good or for ill was by no means
clear to many Britons. In such an era of innovation and revolution,
Britons faced the task of deciding which ideals, goals and
attitudes most closely fitted their own conception of the nation
for which they struggled and fought; the controversies of the era
thus forced ordinary people to define an identity that they
believed embodied the ideal of 'Britishness' to which they could
adhere in this period of uncertainty. Defining John Bull
demonstrates that caricature played a vital role in this
redefinition of what it meant to be British. During the reign of
George III, the public's increasing interest in political
controversies meant that satirists turned their attention to the
individuals and issues involved. Since this long reign was marked
by political crises, both foreign and domestic, caricaturists
responded with an outpouring of work that led the era to be called
the 'golden age' of caricature. Thus, many and varied prints,
produced in response to public demands and sensitive to public
attitudes, provide more than simply a record of what interested
Britons during the late Georgian era. In the face of domestic and
foreign challenges that threatened to shake the very foundations of
existing social and political structures, the public struggled to
identify those ideals, qualities and characteristics that seemed to
form the basis of British society and culture, and that were the
bedrock upon which the British polity rested. During the course of
this debate, the iconography used to depict it in graphic satire
changed to reflect shifts in or the redefinition of existing
ideals. Thus, caricature produced during the reign of George III
came to visually express new concepts of Britishness.
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