Book chapter
Food for Thought: Consuming and Digesting as Political Metaphor in French Satirical Prints
Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture, pp.85-108
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, Springer International Publishing
11/18/2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01857-3_5
Abstract
This essay studies French satirical printsSatiresatirical prints made after the Revolutions of 1789 and 1830, depicting the consuming and digesting body as a means of critiquing the stupidityStupidity, cupidity, and corruption of governments. In his 1831 caricature, Gargantua, Daumier depicts an obese Louis-Philippe seated on his toilet/throne devouring taxes paid by the poor and digesting them into awards for the elite. The monarch’s huge belly reveals how much of this wealth he has metabolized into his own fatFats. The caricatures hearken back to a visual language of prints from the first French Revolution—for example, the aristocraticSocial classpatrician/aristocracy elite devouring and digesting “the people”. Jacques-Louis David’s scatologicalScatologic prints of 1793, still understudied today, are examined here as well as the influence of British satirists.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Food for Thought: Consuming and Digesting as Political Metaphor in French Satirical Prints
- Creators
- Dorothy Johnson - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture, pp.85-108
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-01857-3_5
- eISSN
- 2634-6443
- ISSN
- 2634-6435
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/18/2018
- Academic Unit
- Art and Art History
- Record Identifier
- 9984398327402771
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