Description
Ronald Paulson is the world's major scholar on the correspondences between literary and visual satire. In this book we see a senior scholar at the height of his powers engaged in rescension while striking out into new territory. His scholarship is impeccable and accessible and will be greatly appreciated by scholars and students of the eighteenth century and the art-loving public. -- Paul Korshin, University of Pennsylvania
About the Author
Ronald Paulson is William D. and Robin Mayer Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University. His many books include Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter, also available from Johns Hopkins.
Reviews
This remarkably learned work argues that... readers need to understand the technicalities of atonement, incarnation, redemption, and mediation to appreciate the parodia sacra of Hogarth's famous series, The Harlot's Progress. Choice 2004 This book is everywhere inventive and suggestive, a pleasure to read through but also to use discontinuously for its erudite commentary on particular texts, prints and paintings. -- Steven N. Zwicker Studies in English Literature 2004 An incomparably rich and suggestive book... It should be required reading for all those scholars of the eighteenth century-from whatever discipline of the humanities-who are interested in ideas and the widening of horizons. -- Min Wild Cercles Even as it advances a provocative argument, Hogarth's Harlot enlarges our enjoyment of Hogarth and his rowdy times. -- Clement Hawes Modern Philology 2005
Book Information
ISBN 9780801873911
Author Ronald Paulson
Format Hardback
Page Count 448
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 748g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 36mm