Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire / / Amanda Lahikainen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
• VerfasserIn: Lahikainen, Amanda,
• Place / Publishing House: Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.) :; 17 color images, 2 tables

This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Asking how Britons learned to value both graphic art and money, the book makes surprising connections between two types of engraved images that grew in popularity and influence during this time. Graphic satire grew in visual risk-taking, while paper money became a more standard carrier of financial value, courting controversy as a medium, moral problem, and factor in inflation. Through analysis of satirical prints, as well as case studies of monetary satires beyond London, this book demonstrates several key ways that cultures attach value to printed paper, accepting it as social reality and institutional fact. Thus, satirical banknotes were objects that broke down the distinction between paper money and graphic satire ​altogether.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION The Inflation of Georgian Graphic Satire -- CHAPTER ONE Money, Fact, and Value -- CHAPTER TWO Crisis -- CHAPTER THREE Subjectivity and Trust -- CHAPTER FOUR Imitation and Immateriality -- CHAPTER FIVE Materiality -- CHAPTER SIX The Deflation of Georgian Graphic Satire -- EPILOGUE Beyond Britain -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX