University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"""To take for truth the test of ridicule"": Public perceptions, political controversy, and English political caricature, 1815-1821"
Abstract
dc:description"England experienced numerous domestic disturbances in the half-dozen years that followed the close of the Napoleonic wars, during which time graphic satire on the Prince Regent and his government flourished. Undoubtedly, many of those in positions of power worried that common people might ""take for truth the test of ridicule"" prominent in these prints, an event that would be fatal to the existing political structure of the country. The contemporary caricatures which satirically and sometimes savagely attacked the government, however, indicate that a variety of beliefs and traditional concepts helped to form public perceptions about the causes and implications of large-scale domestic disturbances and the government responses to those events."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History, European
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hunt, Tamara Lisa
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Arnstein, Walter L.
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1989 Hunt, Tamara Lisa
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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AAI8924848
(UMI)AAI8924848 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23773