Romanticism and Caricature (Paperback)

Introduction: the recording angel; 1. Milton's monsters. James Gillray, Sin, Death and the Devil (1792); 2. Lethal money: forgery and the Romantic credit crisis. James Gillray, Midas (1797), George Cruikshank and William Hone, Bank Restriction Note (1819); 3. The aesthetics of conspiracy. James Gillray, Exhibition of a Democratic Transparency (1799); 4. The spectral tyrant: Napoleon and the English dance of death. Thomas Rowlandson, The Two Kings of Terror (1813); 5. The spectropolitics of Romantic infidelism. George Cruikshank, The Age of Reason (1819); 6. The British inquisition. George Cruikshank and William Hone, Damnable Association (1821); 7. The return of the repressed: Henry Hunt and the Reform Bill crisis. William Heath/Charles Jameson Grant, Matchless Eloquence (1831).