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dc.contributor.authorScully, Richarden
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-01T15:38:00Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Victorian Culture, 16(3), p. 363-384en
dc.identifier.issn1750-0133en
dc.identifier.issn1355-5502en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/9344-
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the vibrant cultural milieu inhabited by one of Victorian Britain's most famous cartoonists, Matthew Somerville Morgan. Morgan is well-known as the cartoonist who attacked Queen Victoria's withdrawal from public life (and her associations with John Brown), and the lifestyle of Albert, Prince of Wales, in the short-lived rival to Punch: the Tomahawk. Likewise, his post-1870 career in New York as cartoonist of the 'Caricature War' over the 1872 Presidential elections, and involvement with 'Buffalo' Bill Cody have been well-studied. However, his involvement with the world of the 1860s Victorian stage - and the social circles in which he moved - have not been given close attention. This broader social, cultural, and economic context is essential to understanding Morgan's role as a cartoonist-critic of politics, class, gender and art in Victorian Britain. Special attention is given to the ways in which Morgan's work as a theatrical scene-painter informed his other pursuits, including his political cartoons for Fun, the Comic News and the Tomahawk. So central was the theatre to Morgan's life story that he may be appropriately described as an 'epitheatrical' figure. Indeed he is one of the most spectacular exemplars of the interconnected worlds of journalism, high art and theatre in Victorian London. The theatre provided him with the artistic and journalistic connections needed to raise himself above his lower-class origins; to move in 'clubland' and fashionable bohemian society; and to win an influential place in the key political and cultural debates of his age.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Victorian Cultureen
dc.title'The Epitheatrical Cartoonist': Matthew Somerville Morgan and the World of Theatre, Art and Journalism in Victorian Londonen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13555502.2011.613152en
dc.subject.keywordsBritish Historyen
dc.subject.keywordsHistorical Studiesen
dc.subject.keywordsArt Historyen
local.contributor.firstnameRicharden
local.subject.for2008210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.for2008190102 Art Historyen
local.subject.for2008210305 British Historyen
local.subject.seo2008950105 The Performing Arts (incl. Theatre and Dance)en
local.subject.seo2008970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeologyen
local.subject.seo2008950104 The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft)en
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailrscully@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
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local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage363en
local.format.endpage384en
local.identifier.scopusid84857723798en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume16en
local.identifier.issue3en
local.title.subtitleMatthew Somerville Morgan and the World of Theatre, Art and Journalism in Victorian Londonen
local.contributor.lastnameScullyen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:rscullyen
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dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitle'The Epitheatrical Cartoonist'en
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorScully, Richarden
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local.year.published2011en
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