The Politics of Parody

The Politics of Parody
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 379
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ISBN-10 : 9780300235593
ISBN-13 : 0300235593
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Parody by : David Francis Taylor

Download or read book The Politics of Parody written by David Francis Taylor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of the relationship between literature and visual satire in this period, David Taylor’s book explores how great texts, seen through the lens of visual parody, shape how we understand the political world. It offers a fascinating, novel approach to literary history.


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