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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
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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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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