The efflorescence of caricature, 1759-1838

Contents

1. Introduction. The efflorescence of caricature / Todd Porterfield -- Caricature on the edge of Empire : George Townshend in Quebec / Dominic Hardy -- Early modern Dutch emblems and French visual satire : transfers of models across the eighteenth century / Pierre Wachenheim -- John Bull, liberty and wit : how England became caricature / Reva Wolf -- On bended knee : James Gillray's global view of courtly encounter / Douglas Fordham -- The light of wisdom : magic lanternists as truth-tellers in post-revolutionary France / Helen Weston -- The currency of caricature in revolutionary France / Richard Taws --The public and the limits of persuasion in the age of caricature / Mike Goode -- Signifying shape in pan-European caricature / Richard L. Patten -- James Gillray, caricaturist and modernist artist avant la lettre / Christina Oberstebrink -- The Musée de la caricature / Ségolène Le Men.