Romanticism and caricature

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Milton's monsters : James Gillray, Sin, death and the devil -- Lethal money: forgery and the romantic credit crisis : James Gillray, Midas, George Cruikshank and William Hone, Bank restriction note -- The aesthetics of conspiracy : James Gillray, Exhibition of a democratic transparency -- The spectral tyrant: Napoleon and the English dance of death : Thomas Rowlandson, The two kings of terror -- The spectropolitics of romantic infidelism : George Cruikshank, The age of reason -- The British inquisition : George Cruikshank and William Hone, Damnable association -- The return of the repressed: Henry Hunt and the Reform Bill crisis : William Heath/Charles Jameson Grant, Matchless eloqunce.