Loyal Subversion?
Caricatures from the Personal Union between England and Hanover (1714–1837)
James Baker, Werner Busch, Timothy Clayton, Karl Janke, Brian Maidment, Sheila O'Connell, Christina Oberstebrink, Temitope Odumosu, Elisabeth Reich, Sune Schlitte, Anorthe Wetzel
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?
