The efflorescence of caricature, 1759-1838 / edited by Todd Porterfield.

"Searing disputes over caricature have recently sparked flames across the world - the culmination, not the beginning, of the story of one of modernity's definitive artistic practices. Modern visual satire erupts during a period marked by reform and revolution, by cohering nationalisms and expanding empires, and by the emerging discipline of art history. This has long been recognized as its Golden Age. It is time to look anew."--Book jacket.