Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics : Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (271 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- List of Illustrations -- Paulson's Progress -- Literature -- Congreve and Swift -- Reading Richardson /Richardson Reading -- Art -- Limits to the Artist's Role as Social Commentator: Zoffany's Condemnation of Hogarth and Gillray -- On Edward Pugh and Mourning -- G. M. Woodward's Coffee-House Characters -- Society -- The Problem of Empire: Adam Smith Tries to Draw a Line -- Civil and Religious Liberty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Case Study in Secularization -- Media and Method -- Mixed Media Forever -- Ronald Paulson's Heterodox View of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Art -- Bibliography of the Works of Ronald Paulson -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
This book is a wide-ranging study of British literature and art from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, one that stresses the connections between visual and verbal representation.