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Taylor, David F. (2017) Graphic satire and the enlightenment eye. Critical Quarterly, 59 (4). pp. 34-53. doi:10.1111/criq.12379 ISSN 0011-1562.

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12379

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Abstract

Eighteenth-century satire’s deep immersion in and articulation of the prevailing visual epistemology of the Enlightenment has often been noted. But in the case of graphic satire the question of satire’s proximity to the optical metaphors, practices, and technologies of the period is especially complex. Graphic satire is, by definition, visual; its language is that of the image, or, more accurately, of an image-text imbrication. When we look at satirical prints the very matter of looking is always especially present for us. This essay is concerned with how graphic satire sees itself or, more precisely, how it sees itself seeing. Through readings of caricatures by the likes of James Gillray, James Sayers, and George Cruikshank, it asks what it might mean to take seriously the notion of ‘satire’s eye’, not simply as a rhetorical figure but as a more literal description of what satire is and does.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain -- 18th century, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, Sayers, James, 1748-1823, Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Journal or Publication Title: Critical Quarterly
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN: 0011-1562
Official Date: December 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
December 2017Published
28 January 2018Available
31 August 2017Accepted
Volume: 59
Number: 4
Page Range: pp. 34-53
DOI: 10.1111/criq.12379
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 30 November 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 31 December 2020

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