About Punch Cartoons
In his analysis of "the merciless derision" and "the ridicule meted out [by Punch] to the Jews", M. H. Spielmann resorted to the perhaps deliberately ambiguous phrase "merry prejudice" (Spielmann 103). It was in the spirit of critical investigation and analysis that students in History 387 went to Vassar's comprehensive collection of the nineteenth-century Punch to search for cartoons which reflected on and illuminated aspects of the course up to mid-semester. Do the cartoons which they found indicate harmless humour, "merry prejudice", or the rhetoric of ethnic, religious, and racial antagonisms and hatreds?WORKS CITED
Cartoonists
- Ellegard, Alvin. "The Readership of the Periodical Press in Mid-
- Victorian Britain. 11. Directory." Victorian Periodicals Newsletter 13 (September 1971).
- Elliott, Robert E. The Power of Satire: Magic, Ritual, Art. Princeton, N.J., 1960.
- Godfrey, Richard. English Caricature, 1620 to the Present. London 1984.
- Spielmann, M. H. The History of "Punch." London, 1895.
- Stedman, Jane. "Fun." British Literary Magazines. Vol. 3,
- The Victorian and Edwardian Age, 1837-1913 . Ed. Alvin Sullivan. London 1983.
Cartoonists
1. W. Newman
2. W. M. Thackeray
3. C. Keene
4. L. Sambourne
5. L. Sambourne
6. Kenny Meadows
7. J Leech
8. J Leech
9. J. Tenniel
10. J. Tenniel
11. R. Doyle
12. J . Tenniel
13. G. du Maurier
14. F. Eltze
15. H. Furniss
Source of cartoons and cartoonists:
Spielmann, M. H. The History of 'Punch' (London, 1895), 7, 9.