Milton's monsters -- James Gillray, sin, death and the devil -- Lethal money: forgery and the romantic credit crisis -- James Gillray, Midas (1797), George Cruikshank and William Hone, bank restriction note -- The aesthetics of conspiracy -- James Gillray, exhibition of a democratic transparency -- The spectral tyrant: Napoleon and the English dance of death -- Thomas Rowlandson, the two kings of terror -- The spectropolitics of romantic infidelism -- George Cruikshank, the age of reason -- The British inquisition -- George Cruikshank and William Hone, damnable association -- The return of the repressed: Henry Hunt and the reform bill crisis -- William Heath/Charles Jameson Grant, matchless eloqunce.