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History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art (1865) is a work on caricature and grotesque in art and literature by Thomas Wright with engravings by Frederick William Fairholt.


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Preface to the New Edition ...v

Introduction: The Meaning of the Grotesque - Frances K. Barash ... vi


Errata ... lix

Preface ... lxiii
Contents ... lxix


CHAPTER I ... 1

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Origin of caricature and

grotesque - Spirit of caricature in Egypt - Monsters: Python and Gorgon

- Greece - The Dionysiac ceremonies, and origins of the drama - The old

comedy - Love of parody - Parodies on subjects taken from Grecian

mythology: The visit to the lover; Apollo at Delphi - The partiality of

parody continued among the Romans: The flight of the Aeneas


CHAPTER II ... 23

Origin of the stage in

Rome - Uses of the mask among the Romans - Scenes from the Roman comedy

- The Sannio and Mimus - The Roman drama - The Roman satirists

-Caricature - Animals introduced in the characters of men -  The

Pigmies, and their introduction into caricature; The farm-yard; The

painter's studio; The procession - Political caricature in Pompeii; The

graffiti

CHAPTER III ... 40

The period of transition

from antiquity to the Middle Ages - The Roman Mimi continued to exist -

The Teutonic after-dinner entertainments - Clerical satires: Archbishop

Heriger and the dreamer; The supper of the Saints - Tansition from

ancient to medieval art - Taste for monstrous animals, dragons, etc.;

Church of San Fedele, at Como - Spirit of caricature and love of

grotesque among the Anglo-Saxons - Grotesque figures of demons -

Natural tendency of the early medieval arists to draw in caricature -

Examples from early manuscripts and sculptures

CHAPTER IV ... 61

The diabolical in

literature - Medieval love of the ludicrous - Causes which made it

influence the notions of demons - Stories of the pious painter and the

erring monk - Darkness and ugliness caricatured - The demons in the

miracle plays - The demons of Notre Dame

CHAPTER V ... 75

Employment of animals in

medieval satire - Popularity of fables; Odo de Cirington - Reynard the

fox - Burnellus and Fauvel - The Charivari - Le monde bestorne -

Encaustic tiles - Shoeing the goose, and feeding pigs with roses -

Satirical signs; The mustard maker

CHAPTER VI ... 95

The monkey on burlesquee

and caricature - Tournaments and single combats - Monstrous

combinations of animal forms - Caricatures on costume - The hat - Te

helmet - Ladies' head-dresses - The gown, and its long sleeves

CHAPTER VII ... 106

Preservation of the

character of the Mimus after the fall of the empire - The minstrel and

the jogelour - History of popular stories -The fabliaux - Account of them - The contes devots

CHAPTER VIII ... 118

Caricatures of domestic

life - State of domestic life in the middle ages - Examples of domestic

ccaricature from the carving sof the misereres - Kitchen scenes -

Domestic brawls - The fight for the breeches - The judicial duel

between man and wife among the germans - Allusions to witchcraft -

Satires on the trades: The baker, the miller, the wine-pedlar and the

tavern-keeper, the ale-wife, etc.

CHAPTER IX ... 144

Grotesqe faces and

figures - Prevalence of the taste for ugy and grotesque faces - Some of

the popular forms derived from antiquity: The otngue lolling out, and

the distorted mouth - Horrible subjects: The man and the serpents -

Allegorical figures: Gluttony and luxury - Other representations of

clerical gluttony and drunkenness - Grotesque figures of individuals,

and grotesque groups - ornament sof the borders of books -

Unintentional caricature; the mote and the beam

CHAPTER X ... 159

Satitrical literature in

the middle ages - John de Hauteville and Alan de Lille - Golias and the

Goliards - The Golliardic poetry - Taste for parody - Parodies on

religious subjects - Political caricature in the middle ages - The Jews

of Norwich - Caricature representations of countries - Local Satire -

Political songs and poems

CHAPTER XI ... 188

Minstrelsy a subject of

burlesque and caricature - Character of the minstrels - Their jokes

upon themselves and upon one another - Various musical instruments

represented in the sculptures of the medieval artists - Sir Matthew

Gournay and the ring of Portugal - Discredit of the tabor and bagpipes

- Mermaids



CHAPTER XII ... 200

The court fool - The

Normans and their gabs - Early history of court fools - Their costume -

Carvings in the Cornish churches -The burlesque societies of the middle

ages - The feasts of asses, and of fools - Theor license - The leaden

money of the fools - The bishop's blessing

CHAPTER XIII ... 214

The dance of death - The

paintings in the chuch of La Chaise Dieu - The reign of folly -

Sebastian Brandt; The ship of fools - Disturbers of Church service -

Troublesome beggars - Geilor's sermons - Radius, and his ship of

foolish women - The pleasures of smell - Erasmus; the praise of folly

CHAPTER XIV ... 228

Popular

literature and its heroes; Brother Rush, Tyll Eulenspiegel, the Wise

Men of Gotham - Stories and jest-books - Skelton, Scogin, Tarlton, Peele


CHAPTER XV ... 244

The age of the

Reformation - Thomas Murner; his general satires - Fruitfulness of

folly - Hans Sachs - The trap for fools - Attacks on Luther - The Pope

as antichrist - The pope-ass and the monk-calf - Other caricatures

against the Pope - The good and bad shepherds


CHAPTER XVI ... 264

Origin of

medieval farce and modern comedy - Hrothsvitha - Medieval notions of

Terrence - The early religious plays - Mysteries and miracle plays -

The farces - The drama in the Sixteenth Century


CHAPTER XVII ... 288

Diablerie in

the Sixteenth Century - Early types of the diabolical forms - St.

Anthony - St. Guthlac - Revival of the taste for such subjects in the

beginning od the Sixteenth Century - The Flemish schhol of Breughel -

The French and Italian schools - Callot, Salvator Rosa


CHAPTER XVIII ... 300

Callot and his

school - Callot's romantic history - His "Caprichi," and other

burlesque works - The "Balli" and the beggars - Imitators of Callot;

Della Bella - Examples of Della Bella - Romain de Hooghe


CHAPTER XIX ... 312

The satirical

literature of the Sicteenth Century - Pasquil - Macaronic poetry - The

Epistolae Obscurorum Vivorum -  Rabelais - Court of the Queen of

Navarre, and its literary circle; Bonaventure des Perriers - Henri

Etienne - The Ligue, and its satire; The "Satire Menippe"


CHAPTER XX ... 347

Political

caricature in its infancy - The Reveres du Jeu des Suyesses -

Caricature in France - The Three Orders - Period of the Ligue;

Caricatures against Henri III. - Caricatures against the Ligue -

Caricature in France in the Seventeenth Century - Genral galas - The

quarrel of ambassadors - Caricature against Louis XIV; Willima of

Furstemberg


CHAPTER XXI ... 360

Early political

caricature in England - The satirical writings and pictures of the

Commonwealth period - Satires against the bishops; Bishop Williams -

Caricatures on the Cavaliers; Sir John Suckling - The Roaring Boys;

Violence of the Royalist soldiers - Contest between the Presbyterians

and Independents - Grinding the King's nose - Playing-cards used as the

medium for caricature; Haselrigge and Lambert - Shrovetide


CHAPTER XXII ... 375

English comedy - Ben Jonson -

The other writers of his school - Interruption of dramatic performances

- Comedy after the Restoration - The Howards Brothers: The Duke of

Buckingham; The Rehersal - Writers of comedy in the latter part of the

Seventeenth Century - Indececy of the stage - Colley Cibber - Foote


CHAPTER XXIII ... 406

Caricature in Holland - Romain

de Hooghe - The Englosh revolution - Caricatures of Louis XIV. and

James II. - Dr. Sacheverell- Caricature brought from Holland to England

- Origin of the word "caricature" - Mississippi and the South Sea; The

Year of Bubbles


CHAPTER XXIV ... 420

English caricature in the age

of George II. - English printsellers - Artists employed by them - Sir

Robert Walpole's long ministry - The war with France - The Newcastle

administration - Opera intrigues - Ascension of George III., and Lord

Bute in power


CHAPTER XXV ... 434

Hogarth - His early history -

His sets of pictures - The Harlot's Progress - The Rake's Progress -

The Marriage a ala Mode - His other prints - The analysis of beauty,

and the persecution arising out of it - His patronage by Lord Bute -

Caricature of the times - Attacks to which he was exposed by it, and

which hastened his death


CHAPTER XXVI ... 450

The lesser caricaturists of the

reign of King George III. - Paul Sandby - Collet: The Disaster, and

Father Paul in his Cups - James Sayer: His caricatures in support of

Pitt, and his reward - Carlo Kahn's triumph - Bunbury's: His

caricatures on horsemanship - Woodward: General complaint -

Rowlandson's influence on the style of those whose designs he etched -

John Kay of Edinburgh: Looking a Rock in the Face


CHAPTER XXVII ... 464

Gillray - His first attempts -

His caricatures begin with the Shelburne ministry - Impeachment of

Warren Hastings - Caricatures on the King; New Way to Pay the National

Debt - Alleged reasons for Gillray's hostility to the King - The King

and the Apple-Dumplings - Gillray's later labours - His idiotcy and

death


CHAPTER XXVIII ... 480

Gillray's caricatures on social

life - Thomas Rowlandson - His early life - He becomes a caricaturist -

His style and works - His drawings - The Cruikshanks


Index to Names and Titles ... 495






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