Ian Haywood - The Rise of Victorian Caricature

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture is a monograph series that aims to represent the most innovative research on literary works that were produced in the English-speaking world from the time of the Napoleonic Wars to the fin de sicle. Attentive to the historical continuities between Romantic and Victorian, the series will feature studies that help scholarship to reassess the meaning of these terms during a century marked by diverse cultural, literary, and political movements. The main aim of the series is to look at the increasing influence of types of historicism on our understanding of literary forms and genres. It reflects the shift from critical theory to cultural history that has affected not only the period 1800-1900 but also every field within the discipline of English literature. All titles in the series seek to offer fresh critical perspectives and challenging readings of both canonical and non-canonical writings of this era.

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Cover illustration: Charles Jameson Grant,The Managers Last Kick, woodcut on silk, c.1830. Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

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This book would not have been written without the generous support of research libraries in the UK and the USA. I want to thank the following libraries and special collections for awarding me Visiting Fellowships and/or for supplying me with images to reproduce in the book: the Lewis Walpole Library; the Huntington Library; the Harry Ransom Centre; the New York Public Library; the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; the Yale Centre for British Art; the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings; the British Library. Special thanks are due to the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) for awarding me a Peterson Scholarship in 20172018, and to the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton for granting me a sabbatical to complete the book. I want to thank colleagues who have supported me in this project, and in particular Stephen Roberts, the late Malcolm Chase, Anne Humpherys, Louis James, Rohan McWilliam, Mary Shannon, Greg Vargo, Rob Breton, Louise Lee, Fabrice Bensimon, Cindy Roman, Nicole Bouche, Susan Walker, David Mihaly, Cristina Sofia Martinez and Laura Peters. Brian Maidment has been an inspiration throughout and the generous donor of numerous images from his private collection. I want to thank Jon Turner for his assistance in preparing the manuscript and my editor Camille Davies at Palgrave for her enthusiasm and efficiency: the inclusion of colour images sets this book apart and restores some of the former glory of these wonderful caricatures.

Figures 1.11.16: The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Figures 1.171.24, 1.26, 1.27, 2.10, 4.5: Private Collection of Brian Maidment.

Figures 1.25, 4.4: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings.

Figure 2.6: Yale Centre for British Art.

Figures 2.12.5, 2.72.20: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Figures 4.6, 4.7: Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Figures 4.15, 4.16: Hathi Trust.

All other Figures: British Library.