Introduction: the recording angel 1. Milton's monsters. James Gillray, Sin, Death and the Devil (1792) 2. Lethal money: forgery and the Romantic credit crisis. James Gillray, Midas (1797), George Cruikshank and William Hone, Bank Restriction Note (1819) 3. The aesthetics of conspiracy. James Gillray, Exhibition of a Democratic Transparency (1799) 4. The spectral tyrant: Napoleon and the English dance of death. Thomas Rowlandson, The Two Kings of Terror (1813) 5. The spectropolitics of Romantic infidelism. George Cruikshank, The Age of Reason (1819) 6. The British inquisition. George Cruikshank and William Hone, Damnable Association (1821) 7. The return of the repressed: Henry Hunt and the Reform Bill crisis. William Heath/Charles Jameson Grant, Matchless Eloquence (1831).
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