It’s an election year and we all could probably use a break from this wasp nest of a situation. Enter political satire! A way for us all to happily lambaste the “other guy” and make our friends laugh at the same time. Despite being published in 1983, this book is in pristine condition and was kept in shrink wrap until I opened it to inspect it for damage, and to find out what it was about, of course! From the jacket: The Snarling Muse is the first to look at the “golden age” of [British] political satire- the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole- in light of the unique relationship that was developing at the time between literary and graphic political satire... By investigating the shared iconographic vocabulary of verbal and visual satirists, as well as by discovering links with political rhetoric and historiography, Carretta contributes a fruitful and welcome interdisciplinary approach to eighteenth century English studies.

ISBN: 0812278852