William Hone - parodist and radical
William Hone produced violent anti-government parodies in partnership with the leading caricaturist of the day, George Cruikshank (1792-1878). According to Marcus Wood,1 Hone and Cruikshank’s was the most widely circulated and influential satire printed during the period 1815-22, the period Thompson...
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| Format: | bookPart |
| Language: | eng |
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/64060 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/64060 |
| Summary: | William Hone produced violent anti-government parodies in partnership with the leading caricaturist of the day, George Cruikshank (1792-1878). According to Marcus Wood,1 Hone and Cruikshank’s was the most widely circulated and influential satire printed during the period 1815-22, the period Thompson designated as ‘the heroic age of popular radicalism’. This essay examines Hone’s activity as author and publisher of political parodies between 1815 and 1817. |
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