1st Edition
Defining John Bull Political Caricature and National Identity in Late Georgian England
By Tamara L. Hunt
Copyright 2003
466 Pages
by
Routledge
466 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Caricature and the British public; Caricature and the constitution, c. 1760-1788; Dissenters, levellers and revolutionaries; Britannia, John Bull and national identity; The rights of Englishmen; Majesty, morality and the monarchy; Caricatures and the British polity; Index of caricatures; Index.
Biography
Tamara L. Hunt is associate professor of history and department chair at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. She is the co-editor of and a contributor to Women and the Colonial Gaze (New York/Basingstoke, 2002), and her articles have appeared in various scholarly publications such as Albion, Victorian Periodicals Review, and The Journal of Women's History, as well as in essay collections.
'Admirers of Dorothy George's English Political Caricature (1959) probably believed the work would never be superceded. Tamara Hunt has now accomplished precisely that by considering the development and then the ending of the 'golden age' of caricature, which corresponded to the reign of George III.' Albion
