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Book SynopsisAs England's faithful began to worry less about everlasting felicity in heaven and more about life on earth, these diverse artists provided them with new ways of thinking about both their spiritual and their social existence.
Trade ReviewThis 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
Table of ContentsIntroduction - the sacrament of the Eucharist; Blasphemy and belief - the case of a Harlot's progress; Redemption; Mediation; The end of days; Smart - the Magnificat and Jubilate agno; Blake - the harlot and the Lamb.
