Unseemly pictures : graphic satire and politics in early modern England / Helen Pierce.
Published / Created:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.
Physical Description:
vii, 248 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Politics and print culture in early modern England -- Unseemly pictures: the political print and the threat of popery -- Exposed to the hatred of all men: mocking the monopolists -- Anti-episcopacy and graphic satire -- Painters and poets dare anything: civil war and the picturing of conflict -- Religion is a circle: Presbyterianism, independency and identity -- Dorislaus's debts to the past.
Subject Terms:
Prints, English -- 17th century. | English wit and humor, Pictorial. | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714 -- Caricatures and cartoons.