McCreery, Cindy: the Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England.(Book Review)

History: Review of New Books, September, 2004 by Kruppa, Patricia S.

McCreery, Cindy The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England

New York: Oxford University Press 281 pp., $90.00, ISBN 0-19-926756-1 Publication Date: March 2004

Cindy McCreery received a doctorate in history from the University of Oxford and currently teaches at the University of Sydney, Australia. In The Satirical Gaze, she assesses the historical significance of satirical prints of women in late eighteenth-century England. The satirical print, a distinctly English phenomenon, emerged at a time when a number of social and political factors converged--an increase in urban wealth and population, the relaxation of censorship, improvements in literacy, and a political climate challenged by revolutionary movements abroad. An...

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