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Book Queen Caroline and the Power of Caricature in Georgian England

Download or read book Queen Caroline and the Power of Caricature in Georgian England written by Ian Haywood and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be the first dedicated study of the remarkable role of Georgian caricature in the equally remarkable Queen Caroline controversy of 1820-21. When the newly crowned George IV, formerly the Prince of Wales, refused to recognise his estranged wife Caroline as the rightful queen of the Britain, her refusal to rescind her claim to the throne provoked a huge campaign of sympathy and support that almost toppled the government. The British people rallied round the ‘injured’ queen in their hundreds of thousands, and massed rallies, processions, protests and petitioning became daily news. The Queen Caroline controversy was the zenith of the ‘Golden Age’ of caricature, a tour-de-force of imagination, wit, inventiveness and sheer political mischief. In image after image, Caroline triumphs over her cowardly and conniving enemies, subverting gender and political hierarchies, and giving a presence and voice to her unenfranchised followers. This book therefore aims to chronicle and analyse this achievement.

Book Writing the Global Riot

Download or read book Writing the Global Riot written by Bayeh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the modern riot parallels the development of the modern novel and the modern lyric. Yet there has been no sustained attempt to trace or theorize the various ways writers over time and in different contexts have shaped cultural perceptions of the riot as a distinctive form of political and social expression. Through a focus on questions of voice, massing, and mediation, this collection is the first cross-cultural study of the interrelatedness of a prevalent mode of political and economic protest and the variable styles of writing that riots inspired. This volume will provide historical depth and cultural nuance, as well as examine more recent theoretical attempts to understand the resurgence of rioting in a time of unprecedented global uncertainty. One of the key contentions of this collection is that literature has done more than merely record riotous practices. Rather literature has, in variable ways, used them as raw material to stimulate and accelerate its own formal development and critical responsiveness. For some writers this has manifested in a move away from classical norms of propriety and accord, and toward a more openly contingent, chaotic, and unpredictable scenography and cast of dramatis personae, while others have moved towards narrative realism or, more recently, digital media platforms to manifest the crises that riots unleash. Keenly attuned to these formal variations, the essays in this collection analyse literature's fraught dialogue with the histories of violence that are bound up in the riot as an inherently volatile form of collective action.

Book Defining John Bull

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tamara L. Hunt
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351945645
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book Defining John Bull written by Tamara L. Hunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Goodna Girls

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adele Chynoweth
  • Publisher : ANU Press
  • Release : 2020-09-02
  • ISBN : 1760463914
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Goodna Girls written by Adele Chynoweth and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goodna Girls tells the story of children incarcerated in Wolston Park Hospital, an adult psychiatric facility in Queensland, Australia. It contains the personal testimonies of women who relate—in their own no-holds-barred style and often with irreverent humour—how they, as children, ended up in Wolston Park and how this affected their adult lives. The accounts of hospital staff who witnessed the effects of this heinous policy and spoke out are also included. The book examines the consequences of the Queensland Government’s manipulation of a medical model to respond to ‘juvenile delinquents’, many of whom were simply vulnerable children absconding from abusive conditions. As Australia faces the repercussions of the institutionalisation of its children in the twentieth century, brought about through a series of government inquiries, Goodna Girls makes a vital contribution to the public history of the Stolen Generations, Former Child Migrants and Forgotten Australians. Goodna Girls presents the research that informed a successful, collective campaign to lobby the Queensland Government to make long overdue and much-needed reparations to a group of courageous survivors. It holds contemporary resonance for scholars, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of public history, welfare, child protection, education, nursing, sociology, medicine and criminology.

Book The Queen s Matrimonial Ladder

Download or read book The Queen s Matrimonial Ladder written by William Hone and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder" (A National Toy, With Fourteen Step Scenes; and Illustrations in Verse, With Eighteen other Cuts) by William Hone. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Caricatures Relating to Queen Caroline

Download or read book Caricatures Relating to Queen Caroline written by Robert Cruikshank and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romanticism and Caricature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Haywood
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-24
  • ISBN : 1107044219
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Romanticism and Caricature written by Ian Haywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, richly illustrated study of iconic caricatures, showing the interrelationship between art, satire and politics in the Romantic period.

Book The Queen in the Moon      A Satire  in Verse  on Queen Caroline

Download or read book The Queen in the Moon A Satire in Verse on Queen Caroline written by Caroline (Queen Consort of George IV., King of Great Britain and Ireland.) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Boadicea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Glover
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1791
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book Boadicea written by Richard Glover and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Parody

Download or read book The Politics of Parody written by David Francis Taylor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Queen s Matrimonial Ladder

Download or read book The Queen s Matrimonial Ladder written by William Hone and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder: A National Toy, With Fourteen Step Scenes and Illustrations in Verse, With Eighteen Other Cuts Penury incurr'd By endless riot, vanity; the lust Of pleasure and variety grace Deals him out money from the public chest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Eighteenth Century Britain  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book Eighteenth Century Britain A Very Short Introduction written by Paul Langford and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-08-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.

Book The Hanoverian Succession

    Book Details:
  • Author : Prof Dr Andreas Gestrich
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2015-06-28
  • ISBN : 1472437659
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book The Hanoverian Succession written by Prof Dr Andreas Gestrich and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three hundred years after the succession of the first Hanoverian king, this volume provides an intriguing perspective of a dynasty, challenging assumptions of the Hanoverians as petty-minded monarchs presiding over an inconsequential court. Looking afresh at the Georgian monarchs and their role, influence and legacy within Britain, Hanover and beyond, the chapters shine new light on important topics: from rivalling concepts of monarchical legitimacy and court culture to the multi-confessional set-up of the British composite monarchy and the role of the military, the Anglican Church and the aristocracy in defining and challenging the political order.

Book The Political House that Jack Built

Download or read book The Political House that Jack Built written by William Hone and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of George Cruikshank

Download or read book The Life of George Cruikshank written by Blanchard Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Poverty to Power

Download or read book From Poverty to Power written by Duncan Green and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at the causes and effects of poverty and inequality, as well as the possible solutions. This title features research, human stories, statistics, and compelling arguments. It discusses about the world we live in and how we can make it a better place.