Awards

• Winner of New York Book Show Award 2002
• Winner of New York Book Show Award 2002.
• Winner of New York Book Show Award, Bookbinder's Guild of New York 2002 (United States)
• Winner of The Historians of British Art Prize 2003 (UK)

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Author:   Bernadette Fort ,  Angela Rosenthal
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.219kg
ISBN:  

9780691010137

ISBN 10:   0691010137
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   10 June 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Language:   English

Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements vii The Analysis of Difference by Bernadette Fort and Angela Rosenthal 3 Plates: A Harlot's Progress 16 A Rake's Progress 22 Marriage A-la-mode 30 I. Crafting the Erotic Body ""A Wanton Kind of Chace"": Display as procurement in A Harlot's Progress and Its Reception by James Grantham Turner 38 The Flesh of Theory: The Erotics of Hogarth's Lines by Frederic Ogee 62 Professional Femininity in Hogarth's Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn by Christina Kiaer 76 II. The Anatomy of Difference Spotting the Symptoms: Hogarthian Bodies as Sites of Semantic Ambiguity 102 Unfolding Gender: Women and the ""Secret"" Sign Language of Fans in Hogarth's Work by Angela Rosenthal 120 Manly Satire: William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress by Mark Hallett 142 ""Nature Revers'd"": Satire and Homosexual Difference in Hogarth's London by Richard Meyer 162 III. Cultural Critique The Fetish over the Fireplace: Disease as genius loci in Marriage A-la-Mode by David Solkin 176 Marriage in the French and English Manners: Hogarth and Abraham Bosse by Sarah Maza and Sean Shesgreen 192 An Un-Married Woman: Mary Edwards, William Hogarth, and a Case of Eighteenth-Century British Patronage by Nadia Tscherny 212 Hogarth's Working Women: Commerce and Consumption by Patricia Crown 224 Embodied Liberty: Why Hogarth's Caricature of John Wilkes Backfired by Amelia Rauser 240 IV. Race and Representation ""A Voluptuous Alliance between Africa and Europe"": Hogarth's Africans by Davis Bindman 260 A Fashionable Marriage by Lubaina Himid 270 Lubaina Himid's A Fashionable Marriage: A Post-Colonial Hogarthian ""Dumb Show"" by Bernadette Fort 278 Works Cited 294 Contributors 311 Index 313 Photography Credits 320"

Reviews

This beautifully produced volume is a handsome contribution to the ever-widening study of Hogarth's graphic work. Choice Anyone interested in the present state of Hogarth scholarship will wish to consult this volume. -- Simon Turner Times Literary Supplement

This beautifully produced volume is a handsome contribution to the ever-widening study of Hogarth's graphic work. -- Choice Anyone interested in the present state of Hogarth scholarship will wish to consult this volume. -- Simon Turner, Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

Bernadette Fort is Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor of French at Northwestern University and editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. Angela Rosenthal is Assistant Professor of Art at Dartmouth College.

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