Smoking Clubs in Graphic Satire and the Anglicizing of Tobacco in Eighteenth-Century Britain
2021; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 65; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0018246x21000200
ISSN1469-5103
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Art and Culture Studies
ResumoAbstract Focusing on A smoking club (1793/7) by James Gillray, this essay presents satiric representations of smoking clubs in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British prints, arguing that they reflect and mediate contemporary understandings of tobacco as an intoxicant in British associational life. The breadth of potential cultural connotations – from political and social parody to light-hearted humour – is traced through the content and imagery of selected prints. These prints rely on the familiarity of contemporary audiences with political and social knowledge, as well as a visual iconography iconically realized in William Hogarth's A midnight modern conversation (1732).
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