A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art

Name: A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art
Author: Wright, Thomas

Wright, Thomas

Caricature -- History

THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE
     AGES--THE ROMAN MIMI CONTINUED TO EXIST--THE TEUTONIC
     AFTER-DINNER ENTERTAINMENTS--CLERICAL SATIRES:
     ARCHBISHOP HERIGER AND THE DREAMER; THE SUPPER OF THE
     SAINTS--TRANSITION FROM ANCIENT TO MEDIÆVAL ART--TASTE
     FOR MONSTROUS ANIMALS, DRAGONS, ETC.; CHURCH OF SAN
     FEDELE, AT COMO--SPIRIT OF CARICATURE AND LOVE OF
     GROTESQUE AMONG THE ANGLO-SAXONS--GROTESQUE FIGURES OF
     DEMONS--NATURAL TENDENCY OF THE EARLY MEDIÆVAL ARTISTS
     TO DRAW IN CARICATURE--EXAMPLES FROM EARLY MANUSCRIPTS
     AND SCULPTURES                                                 40

  CHAPTER IV.

  THE DIABOLICAL IN CARICATURE--MEDIÆVAL LOVE OF THE
     LUDICROUS--CAUSES WHICH MADE IT INFLUENCE THE NOTIONS
     OF DEMONS--STORIES OF THE PIOUS PAINTER AND THE ERRING
     MONK--DARKNESS AND UGLINESS CARICATURED--THE DEMONS IN
     THE MIRACLE PLAYS--THE DEMON OF NOTRE DAME                     61

  CHAPTER V.

  EMPLOYMENT OF ANIMALS IN MEDIÆVAL SATIRE--POPULARITY
     OF FABLES; ODO DE CIRINGTON--REYNARD THE
     FOX--BURNELLUS AND FAUVEL--THE CHARIVARI--LE MONDE
     BESTORNÉ--ENCAUSTIC TILES--SHOEING THE GOOSE, AND
     FEEDING PIGS WITH ROSES--SATIRICAL SIGNS; THE MUSTARD
     MAKER                                                          75

  CHAPTER VI.

  THE MONKEY IN BURLESQUE AND CARICATURE--TOURNAMENTS
     AND SINGLE COMBATS--MONSTROUS COMBINATIONS OF
     ANIMAL FORMS--CARICATURES ON COSTUME--THE HAT--THE
     HELMET--LADIES' HEAD-DRESSES--THE GOWN, AND ITS LONG
     SLEEVES                                                        95

  CHAPTER VII.

  PRESERVATION OF THE CHARACTER OF THE MIMUS AFTER THE FALL
     OF THE EMPIRE--THE MINSTREL AND JOGELOUR--HISTORY OF
     POPULAR STORIES--THE FABLIAUX--ACCOUNT OF THEM--THE
     CONTES DEVOTS                                                 106

  CHAPTER VIII.

  CARICATURES OF DOMESTIC LIFE--STATE OF DOMESTIC LIFE
     IN THE MIDDLE AGES--EXAMPLES OF DOMESTIC CARICATURE
     FROM THE CARVINGS OF THE MISERERES--KITCHEN
     SCENES--DOMESTIC BRAWLS--THE FIGHT FOR THE
     BREECHES--THE JUDICIAL DUEL BETWEEN MAN AND WIFE AMONG
     THE GERMANS--ALLUSIONS TO WITCHCRAFT--SATIRES ON THE
     TRADES: THE BAKER, THE MILLER, THE WINE-PEDLAR AND
     TAVERN KEEPER, THE ALE-WIFE, ETC.                             118

  CHAPTER IX.

  GROTESQUE FACES AND FIGURES--PREVALENCE OF THE TASTE FOR
     UGLY AND GROTESQUE FACES--SOME OF THE POPULAR FORMS
     DERIVED FROM ANTIQUITY: THE TONGUE LOLLING OUT, AND
     THE DISTORTED MOUTH--HORRIBLE SUBJECTS: THE MAN
     AND THE SERPENTS--ALLEGORICAL FIGURES: GLUTTONY AND
     LUXURY--OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OF CLERICAL GLUTTONY
     AND DRUNKENNESS--GROTESQUE FIGURES OF INDIVIDUALS,
     AND GROTESQUE GROUPS--ORNAMENTS OF THE BORDERS OF
     BOOKS--UNINTENTIONAL CARICATURE; THE MOTE AND THE BEAM        144

  CHAPTER X.

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A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art

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