Emblematism and Ideal Publicness
The Emblematic Worldview
Emblems: Ways of Reading
Publicness and Personal Identity
The Values of Publicness: Disinterestedness, Rationality, and Anonymity
Character or Caricature?
The 1740s: The Patriot Unmasked
Hogarth's Natural Characters
The Gentleman Caricaturist: George Townshend
The Backlash Against Caricature: The Case of John Wilkes
Caricature and Authenticity: Artifice, Masculinity, and the Macaroni
Macaronis and Politeness
Caricaturing the Macaroni
West's Death of Wolfe and Reynolds's Portraits "As''
Authentic Eccentricity
Caricature and Individualism: The Crisis in Representation
Unmasking American Licentiousness
Crises of Representation: Popular Sovereignty and Virtual Representation
Physiognomy, Rhetoric, and the Search for Natural Language
Caricature and Irony: Aestheticism, Embodiment, and Subjectivity
The Aestheticization of Political Prints
Irony and Unmasking
Embodying the Nation
Inventing John Bull
Caricature: A Case Study of the Butcher-Kissing Duchess
Epilogue: The Englishness of Caricature in Revolutionary France.