Hogarth's Harlot: Sacred Parody in Enlightenment England

by Ronald Paulson

Book Overview

In 1732, a blasphemous burlesque of the Christian Atonement was published in England without comment from the government or the Church of England. In Hogarth's Harlot, Ronald Paulson explains this absence of official censure through a detailed examination of the parameters of blasphemy in eighteenth-century England and the changing attitudes toward the central tenets of the Christian Church among artists in this period. Discerning a profound...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801873916
• ISBN13: 9780801873911
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher