Joel A. Hollander
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 684
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A study of late 19th century Irish political cartoons that addressed nationalist issues of land ownership, censorship of the press, and legislative relations between Ireland and England. Through mass media, the "types" Pat Murphy and Erin reached a broad citizenry and embodied the needs of the tenant class, while complementing other visual approaches of the period, such as pantomime and farce, 'high' art and popular art, the fantastic, Shakespearean loyalty, Faustian allusions, Swiftian appropriations, nursery rhymes, anthropomorphic narratives, and the heroic construction.