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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      February 2013

      Comedy, caricature and the social order, 1820–50

      by Brian Maidment

      Offering an overview of the marketplace for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the interest and importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It considers the impact on the development of print culture of the emergent, but soon widespread, use of lithography and wood engraving, both capable of integrating texts and images cheaply and imaginatively on the printed page. Drawing on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures, this book traces the ways in which Regency and early Victorian visual humour both sustains some of the characteristics of an earlier caricature tradition while also beginning to develop new ways of analyzing and coping with social change through comic forms and genres. ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2022

      Comic empires

      Imperialism in cartoons, caricature, and satirical art

      by Richard Scully, Alan Lester, Andrekos Varnava

      Comic empires is a unique collection of new research exploring the relationship between imperialism and political cartoons, caricature, and satirical art. Edited by leading scholars across both fields (and with contributions from contexts as diverse as Egypt, Australia, the United States, and China, as well as Europe) the volume provides new perspectives on well-known events, and illuminates little-known players in the 'great game' of empire in modern times. Some of the finest comic art of the period is deployed as evidence, and examined seriously, in its own right, for the first time. Accessible to students of history at all levels, Comic empires is a major addition to the world-leading 'Studies in Imperialism' series, as well as standing alone as an innovative and significant contribution to the ever-growing international field of comics studies.

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      October 2023

      Spectral Dickens

      The uncanny forms of novelistic characterization

      by Alexander Bove

      Drawing on the recent ontological turn in critical theory, Spectral Dickens explores an aspect of literary character that is neither real nor fictional, but spectral. This work thus provides an in-depth study of the inimitable characters populating Dickens' illustrated novels using three hauntological concepts: the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian real. Thus, while the current discourse on character studies, which revolves around values like realism, depth, and lifelikeness, tends to see characters as mimetic of persons, this book invents new critical concepts to account for non-mimetic forms of characterization. These spectral forms bring to light the important influence of developments in nineteenth-century visual culture, such as the lithography and caricature of Daumier and J.J. Grandville. The spectrality of novelistic characters developed here paves the way for a new understanding of fictional characters in general.

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      The Arts
      December 2024

      The picture politics of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould

      Britain's pioneering political cartoonist

      by Mark Bryant

      This is the first major study of Britain's pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted. Written by the distinguished media historian, Colin Seymour-Ure, it is essential reading for anyone interested in cartoons, caricature and illustration and will also be welcomed by students of history, politics and the media. It examines Gould's career in Fleet Street until his retirement after the First World War. It also discusses his illustrations for magazines and books and there is an analysis of his use of symbolism and literary allusion to lampoon such eminent politicians as Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. As Lord Baker says in his Foreword, this book is 'a major contribution to our knowledge of British cartooning.'

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      June 2012

      Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation

      Passengers, pilots, publicity

      by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

      The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature. ;

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      March 2021

      Robert Koch's Ape

      The great mistake of the famous physician

      by Michael Lichtwarck-Aschoff

      During the corona crisis, Robert Koch‘s name has been on everyone‘s lips: Robert Koch is regarded as one of the shining lights in German medical history. However, the expedition that he undertakes in 1906 to the “protected area” of German East Africa even the institute named after him describes as the darkest chapter in Koch‘s history. Lichtwarck-Aschoff‘s oppressive book tells how the Nobel laureate conducted medical tests on people suffering from the sleeping sickness transmitted by the tsetse fly, and recommended the internment of sick people in camps. The aim was to preserve the labour power of the healthy colonised – even if that were at the cost of the infected suffering damage to their body and soul or even dying.

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      March 2004

      Hallo Tarzan!

      Durch bessere Kommunikation zu einer glücklichen Beziehung: Die PowerConnections®-Methode

      by Tomasek, Gigi; Engel, Birgit Claire / Illustriert von Rae, Donald

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      July 2015

      The republican line

      Caricature and French republican identity, 1830–52

      by Laura O'Brien, Maire Cross, David Hopkin

      The years between 1830 and 1852 were turbulent ones in French politics - but were also a golden age for French political caricature. Caricature was wielded as a political weapon, so much so that in 1835 the French politician Adolphe Thiers claimed that 'nothing was more dangerous' than graphic satire. This book is the first full study of French political caricature during the critical years of the July Monarchy (1830-48) and the Second Republic (1848-52). Focusing on the crucial question of republicanism, it shows how caricature was used - by both republicans and anti-republicans - to discuss, define and articulate notions of republican identity during this highly significant period in modern French and European history. ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      December 2017

      Comedy, caricature and the social order, 1820–50

      by Brian Maidment

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      February 2021

      Spectral Dickens

      by Alexander Bove, Anna Barton, Andrew Smith

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 2019

      Cinema and Radio in Britain and America, 1920–60

      by Jeffrey Richards

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      June 2009

      Antisemitismus und Gesellschaftstheorie

      Die Frankfurter Schule im amerikanischen Exil

      by Eva-Maria Ziege

      Während Horkheimer und Adorno an der Dialektik der Aufklärung schrieben, begannen sie mit Vorarbeiten zu einem heute vergessenen empirischen Großprojekt: Bereits 1944 untersuchte das Institut für Sozialforschung in enger Kooperation mit dem Jewish Labor Committee, wie sich der Weltkrieg und der Völkermord an den Juden Europas auf den amerikanischen Antisemitismus auswirkten. Diese Konfrontation mit der Gesellschaft ihres Exils veranlaßte die Protagonisten der Kritischen Theorie zu einer wesentlichen Veränderung ihrer Theoriebildung. Zieges Buch deckt das »missing link« zwischen der Dialektik der Aufklärung und The Authoritarian Personality auf. Es rekonstruiert die Exilarbeiten der Frankfurter Schule nicht nur im wissenschaftlichen, sondern auch im politischen Feld und macht sichtbar, inwiefern sich die »amerikanische Erfahrung« produktiv in ihren Werken niederschlug.

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      Fiction

      THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY ISLANDS

      by Lukas Maisel

      Almost every Asian culture has a name for this particular creature – Yeren in China, Chemo in Tibet or Orang Pendek on Sumatra. For centuries it has had a place in myths and imaginations. Only the scientific world is not interested in the missing link between man and beast. A Swiss cryptozoologist is determined to change this. He sets off on an expedition to central Papua New Guinea. By his side is a man from the ethnic group of the Bugis; at the helm of the boat is someone who calls himself Jonah. And then there is Blum, in his mid-twenties, faint-hearted, but with a pronounced awareness of proper etiquette. Together they set off on a journey into well-measured uncertainty. With a self-welded cage on the bow…

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      February 2017

      Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation

      Passengers, pilots, publicity

      by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

      The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature.

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