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Africans in English caricature, 1769-1819 : black jokes, white humour / Tedi Odumosu.
By: Odumosu, Temi [author.]
.Publisher: London : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2017Description: 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781909400504.Other title: Black jokes, white humour.Subject(s): Africans -- Caricatures and cartoons -- England -- History -- 18th century | Black people -- Caricatures and cartoons -- England -- History -- 18th century | Racism in cartoons -- England -- History -- 18th century | Caricature -- England -- History -- 18th century | Ethnicity -- England -- Caricatures and cartoons | English wit and humor, Pictorial -- History -- 18th century | England -- Ethnic relations -- Caricatures and cartoons -- History -- 18th centuryDDC classification: 741.56942
Contents:
Laughing stock : the image of the African in eighteenth-century prints -- The overdressed slave : servants, pets and 'Mungo' macaronis -- 'What a nice bit!' : the comic 'sable mistress' and her suitors -- James Gillray's Wouski (1788) : a new case study -- A beggar's brawl : the New Union Club (1819) and post-abolition politics in London -- Epilogue : escaping the 'keen shafts of ridicule?'.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 741.56942 ODU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 021925 |
Laughing stock : the image of the African in eighteenth-century prints -- The overdressed slave : servants, pets and 'Mungo' macaronis -- 'What a nice bit!' : the comic 'sable mistress' and her suitors -- James Gillray's Wouski (1788) : a new case study -- A beggar's brawl : the New Union Club (1819) and post-abolition politics in London -- Epilogue : escaping the 'keen shafts of ridicule?'.