Africans in English caricature 1769-1819 : black jokes white humour

by Temi Odumosu

PDF, 2017

Publication

London : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2017]

ISBN

9781909400504

Notes

CONTENTS
Introduction. Laughing Stock: The Image of the African in Eighteentth-Century Prints
1 The Overdressed Slave: Servants, Pets and ‘Mungo’ Macaronis
2 What a Nice Bit!’: The Comic ‘sable mistress’ and her Suitors
3 James Gillray’s Wouski (1788): A New Case Study
4 A Beggar’s Brawl: The New Union Club (1819) and Post-Abolition Politics in London
Epilogue. Escaping the 'keen shafts of ridicule'?
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