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- Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Caricature Talk
- Part II Novel Caricatures
- Caricature Talk and Characterisation Technique
- Chapter 4 Jane Austen and Anti-caricature
- Chapter 5 Walter Scott and Historical Caricatures
- Chapter 6 Mary Shelley, Flesh-Caricature and Horrid Realism
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Caricature Talk and Characterisation Technique
from Part II - Novel Caricatures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2023
- Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Caricature Talk
- Part II Novel Caricatures
- Caricature Talk and Characterisation Technique
- Chapter 4 Jane Austen and Anti-caricature
- Chapter 5 Walter Scott and Historical Caricatures
- Chapter 6 Mary Shelley, Flesh-Caricature and Horrid Realism
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Summary
What does the caricature talk of the Romantic period have to do with literary criticism’s persistent notion of ‘caricature’ as a technique or style of characterisation in an author’s work? Does caricature have a formal existence, a set of stylistic markers, which can be identified in fictive characters across literary works?
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- Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel , pp. 91 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023