Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.

Introduction: Making and Unmaking the Paper World

1. Dark Media and the Materiality of Nothing

Dark Media and Graphic Materiality
Smoked Images and Night Pieces: Touching Nothing
Form and Formlessness in Blake’s Embedded Media

2. Haunted Media

Conjuring Dead Painters
The Baseless Fabric of Print
Dematerializing Media

3. Good Copies, Bad Copies

Counterfeit Masks
Repetition with Difference
Pairs of Portraits

4. Social Detritus, Paper Detritus

Blind Beggars and Printed Images
Cobbling, Patching, Translating
The Gatherer of Scraps

Joseph Monteyne is an associate professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory at the University of British Columbia.