Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lahikainen, Amanda.

Series:

Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--Modern period, 1600-.

Great Britain--Social conditions--Humor.

Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : University of Delaware Press, 2022.

Summary:

This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Asking how Britons learned to value both graphic art and money, the book makes surprising connections between two types of engraved images that grew in popularity and influence during this time. Graphic satire grew in visual risk-taking, while paper money became a more standard carrier of financial value, courting controversy as a medium, moral problem, and factor in inflation. Through analysis of satirical prints, as well as case studies of monetary satires beyond London, this book demonstrates several key ways that cultures attach value to printed paper, accepting it as social reality and institutional fact. Thus, satirical banknotes were objects that broke down the distinction between paper money and graphic satire ​altogether.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Tables and Illustrations

Introduction. The Inflation of Georgian Graphic Satire

Chapter One. Money, Fact, and Value

Chapter Two. Crisis

Chapter Three. Subjectivity and Trust

Chapter Four. Imitation and Immateriality

Chapter Five. Materiality

Chapter Six. The Deflation of Georgian Graphic Satire

Epilogue. Beyond Britain

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Lahikainen, Amanda Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire

ISBN:

1-64453-271-9

OCLC:

1342533105