A lively, richly illustrated study of iconic caricatures, showing the interrelationship between art, satire and politics in the Romantic period.

A counter-intuitive history of literary caricature, exploring how caricature helped make the realist novel in the Romantic period.

What was caricature to novelists in the Romantic period? Why does Jane Austen call Mr Dashwood's wife 'a strong caricature of himself'? Why does Mary Shelley de

This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s

Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.