Unseemly Pictures: Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England (The Association of Human Rights Institutes series) - Hardcover

Pierce, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300142544 ISBN 13: 9780300142549

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2009

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Reseña del editor:

This engaging book is the first full study of the satirical print in seventeenth-century England from the rule of James I to the Regicide. It considers graphic satire both as a particular pictorial category within the wider medium of print and as a vehicle for political agitation, criticism, and debate. Helen Pierce demonstrates that graphic satire formed an integral part of a wider culture of political propaganda and critique during this period, and she presents many witty and satirical prints in the context of such related media as manuscript verses, ballads, pamphlets, and plays. She also challenges the commonly held notion that a visual iconography of politics and satire in England originated during the 1640s, tracing the roots of this iconography back into native and European graphic cultures and traditions.

Biografía del autor:

Helen Pierce is a postdoctoral research fellow based at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300142544
• ISBN 13: 9780300142549
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248