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A History of Caricature

by Thomas Wright

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Epigraph — Chapter I — Origin of Caricature and Grotesque…
  3. 3Chapter II — Origin of the Stage in Rome…
  4. 4Chapter III — The Period of Transition From Antiquity to the Middle…
  5. 5Chapter IV — The Diabolical in Caricature…
  6. 6Chapter V — Employment of Animals in Mediæval Satire…
  7. 7Chapter VI — The Monkey in Burlesque and Caricature…
  8. 8Chapter VII
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Caricatures of Domestic Life…
  10. 10Chapter IX — Grotesque Faces and Figures…
  11. 11Chapter X — Satirical Literature in the Middle Ages…
  12. 12Chapter XI — Minstrelsy a Subject of Burlesque and Caricature…
  13. 13Chapter XII — The Court Fool…
  14. 14Chapter XIII — The Dance of Death…
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Popular Literature and Its Heroes…
  16. 16Chapter XV — The Age of the Reformation…
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Origin of Mediæval Farce and Modern Comedy…
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Diablerie in the Sixteenth Century…
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Callot and His School…
  20. 20Chapter XIX — The Satirical Literature of the Sixteenth Century…
  21. 21Chapter XX — Political Caricature in Its Infancy…
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Early Political Caricature in England…
  23. 23Chapter XXII — English Comedy…
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Caricature in Holland…
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — English Caricature in the Age of George Ii…
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Hogarth…
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — The Lesser Caricaturists of the Reign of George Iii…
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — Gillray…
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Gillray’s Caricatures on Social Life…

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