Robert L. Patten, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Rice University, is the author of Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford) and a two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (Rutgers).

"[Cruikshank's] artistic roles and productiveness comprise a bewildering spectrum of style and subject that has hitherto defied critical summary... Professor Patten has collected essays that are acute, diverse, and stimulating in judgment, and which will surely spur on the continuing revaluation of Cruikshank that he hopes for."--Jonathan E. Hill, Victorian Studies

Robert L. Patten, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Rice University, is the author of Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford) and a two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (Rutgers).

"[Cruikshank's] artistic roles and productiveness comprise a bewildering spectrum of style and subject that has hitherto defied critical summary... Professor Patten has collected essays that are acute, diverse, and stimulating in judgment, and which will surely spur on the continuing revaluation of Cruikshank that he hopes for."--Jonathan E. Hill, Victorian Studies

Robert L. Patten, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Rice University, is the author of Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford) and a two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (Rutgers).

"[Cruikshank's] artistic roles and productiveness comprise a bewildering spectrum of style and subject that has hitherto defied critical summary... Professor Patten has collected essays that are acute, diverse, and stimulating in judgment, and which will surely spur on the continuing revaluation of Cruikshank that he hopes for."--Jonathan E. Hill, Victorian Studies