A view from the fringe. The satirical press illustrated with cartoons as a radical perspective in the nineteenth century

Abstract

This paper draws on the Seville satirical weeklies El Tío Clarín (1864) and El Padre Adam (1868) as sources to develop an historical-philosophical framework in which to analyse the cultural origins of gender based on the cross-links between three elements: the view as a disciplinary field, the modern attitude of illustrators and the characterisation of citizen as public. The aim of this approach is to examine the use of the satirical press with cartoons in the second half of the nineteenth century as a way, through the humorous representation of the present, of demystifying the ideology of progress and popularising the virtue of citizen around the role of spectator. This shows how the fringe view of illustrators at the time encapsulated a radical worldview.