Edmund Burke: A Life in CaricatureYale University Press, 1. jaan 1996 - 214 pages For more than thirty years until his death in 1797, the statesman and writer Edmund Burke was a powerful and passionate voice on the great political issues of late eighteenth-century Britain. The broad range of his interests, as well as his Irish origins and his Catholic connections, made Burke a favorite target of such vitriolic and sometimes scurrilous caricaturists as Gillray, Rowlandson, Dent, and Sayers. This book follows and sheds new light on Burke's political, literary, and personal life by examining a wide selection of the caricatures in which he was featured. Nicholas Robinson puts the caricatures in context by reconstructing the day-to-day episodes of social and parliamentary activity and by reviewing the debates that took place about such issues as the influence of the Crown, relations with America, the governance of India, and the French Revolution. He shows how caricature was forged into a formidable political weapon, unravels the caricaturists' devices in representing the mannerisms and characteristics of Burke and his contemporaries, and investigates how Burke and other political figures, including Charles James Fox, William Pitt, George III, Lord North, and the Prince of Wales, fared as the subjects of the satirical prints. Robinson demonstrates that Catholic entryism, party politics, economic reform, aesthetics, good governance, the constitutional role of the monarch, the role and conduct of his heir, radicalism, and dissent were all treated pungently, facetiously, and often savagely in the prints. And from them emerges a fresh portrait of Burke as a person, statesman, intellectual, and man of honor. |
Contents
Chapter Two Paradise Lost Paradise Regained | 38 |
Chapter Three Carlo Khan | 53 |
Chapter Four Assailing the Saviour of India | 79 |
Chapter Five Fighting for a Crown | 118 |
Chapter Six The Knight of the Woeful | 136 |
Chapter Seven Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man | 171 |
Conclusion Sublime and Beautiful Reflections | 190 |
Common terms and phrases
America Anon April artist attack begums biretta BM Cat British Museum Burke's caricature caricaturists Charles coalition collection Andrew Edmunds Crown Cruise O'Brien December Duke Dundas Earl Edmund Burke February Fitzherbert Fox and Burke Fox's France French Gillray's hand Hastings's head Holland Humphrey Ibid Impeachment inscribed Ireland Irish Isaac Cruikshank James Gillray James Sayers January Jesuit John Boyne John Bull July June Junius King King's Lewis Walpole Library Liberty London Lord North M.D. George March ministers North and Burke note to BM opposition Oxford parliament parliamentary parody Peel Collection pension Philip Francis Pierpont Morgan Library Pitt Pitt's Plate political Portland Prince of Wales Prince's private collection Published Queen Quoted regency Revolution Richard Richmond Rockingham Rowlandson Royal S.W. Fores satire says scene Shelburne Sheridan spectacles Street Sublime and Beautiful Thurlow Townshend Treasury Warren Hastings Westminster Whigs William Dent Writings and Speeches