Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-Century English Prints

by Amelia Rauser

This book is the first to examine the meaning encoded in the very form of caricature, a form of popular and polemical visual art that burst suddenly on the scene in late eighteenth-century England, and to explain its rise as a consequence of the emergence of modernity, especially the modern self. Caricature and the modern self developed in tandem: as the modern notion of selfhood_with its valorization of interiority, private authenticity, and consistency...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611493234
• ISBN13: 9781611493238
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 11.0"