Character and Caricature, 1660-1820

This edited collection offers a reappraisal of character as a precondition for caricature and addresses how the two began to merge, becoming increasingly interlinked over the course of the long eighteenth century. It emphasises the need to understand character more fully, arguing that the nuances an...

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Other Authors: Buckley, Jennifer (Editor), Davies-Shuck, Montana (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction - Jennifer Buckley and Montana Davies-Shuck
  • 2 Sexual Health and the Libertine Character - Declan Gilmore-Kavanagh
  • 3 Ninny-broths, Sirreverence and a Place for Hell: Sketches of Coffeehouse Culture - Jennifer Buckley
  • 4 ‘Such very Slaughter-men’: The Character of the Satirist in Early Eighteenth-Century Print - Adam James Smith
  • 5 Aping the French: Foppish Masculinities in the Eighteenth-Century - Montana Davies-Shuck
  • 6 “himself is as great a curiosity as any in his collection”: Gender, Curiosity and the Collector as a Character in the Eighteenth Century - Lizzie Rogers
  • 7 The Thrill of the Chaise: Gendering the Phaeton in Literary and Satirical Culture (1770-1820) - Benjamin Jackson
  • 8 Staging the Face: Joanna Baillie and the Re/creation of Dramatic Character - Sibylle Erle
  • 9 Sarah Siddons by a Nose: Caricature and the Celebrity Profile of an Actress, 1786-1816 - Gillian Russell
  • 10 Afterword