Comedy, caricature and the social order, 1820–50

Comedy, caricature and the social order, 1820–50In offering an overview of the market for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It draws on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures.

photograph and video live performance

what is the French New Wave without Paris

the long narrative of our human journey

Based on extensive use of primary evidence

Liberalism is shown to be best understood as a political tradition that has been profoundly shaped by Britain’s unique and evolving political culture and by political realities

and a variety of primary source material is used to reconsider the extent of poverty in the period 1700-1850

Asian American

While there are a number of books on specific aspects of European theatre during this period

In today’s thoroughly mass-mediated world

It offers a fresh perspective on the idea that ‘sex killed God’

The essays and artwork in this book insist that an understanding of the political and cultural institutions and practices which shaped settler-colonial societies in the past can provide important insights into how this legacy of unequal rights can be contested in the present

Emphasizing the new documentary cinema