Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article addresses the importance of caricature to the literary culture of nine-teenth-century London, both as a form of drawing and as a way of thinking about literature. The article argues that caricature can be thought of in two ways, either as an art that affirms identity even as it appears to distort it, or as a more radical art that places the viewer in a position of epistemological uncertainty, challenging their sense of reality and the appearance of unity. Reading the caricature of Dickens and Thackeray through discussions of allegory in Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin, this article illustrates the ways in which these two forms of caricature can function.
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