Loyal Subversion?

Caricatures from the Personal Union between England and Hanover (1714–1837)

Contributions by James Baker Contributions by Werner Busch Contributions by Sune Schlitte Contributions by Brian Maidment Contributions by Christina Oberstebrink Contributions by Timothy Clayton Contributions by Sheila O'Connell Contributions by Karl Janke Contributions by Temitope Odumosu Edited by Anorthe Wetzel Edited by Elisabeth Reich

Book cover: Loyal Subversion?

Extent: 199 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Social Sciences , Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(May 2014)

ISBN: 9783525301678

6.34 x 9.49 inches

Price: $57.00

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Caricatures as an institutionalized form of political perception?


The political constellation of the personal union between England and Hanover lasted for 123 years. The figure of a foreign king became a determining factor and was in itself a historical condition for the emergence and the development of caricatures in England after the Glorious Revolution. The contributors of the volume show that, as a political weapon of the opposition and as an institution of public opinion, the caricatures affected the establishment. Is the visual criticism of the rulers more than a loyal subversion of their subjects?

Elisabeth Reich is Scientific Assistant at the Wilhelm Busch – Deutsches Museum fur Karikatur und Zeichenkunst in Hanover, Germany. Anorthe Kremers is Vice Head of the Conferences & Symposia department at the Volkswagen Foundation, based in Hanover.

  • Contributions by James Baker
  • Contributions by Werner Busch
  • Contributions by Sune Schlitte
  • Contributions by Brian Maidment
  • Contributions by Christina Oberstebrink
  • Contributions by Timothy Clayton
  • Contributions by Sheila O’Connell
  • Contributions by Karl Janke
  • Contributions by Temitope Odumosu
  • Edited by Anorthe Wetzel
  • Edited by Elisabeth Reich