Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics - Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson

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.

List of contents

Contents
Paulson's Progress
Ashley Marshall
Part I: Literature
Congreve and Swift
Claude Rawson
Reading Richardson / Richardson Reading
Robert Folkenflik
Part II: Art
Limits to the Artist's Role as Social Commentator: Zoffany's Condemnation of Hogarth and Gillray
William L. Pressly
On Edward Pugh and Mourning
John Barrell
G. M. Woodward's Coffee-House Characters
Ann Bermingham
Part III: Society
The Problem of Empire: Adam Smith Tries to Draw a Line
Mary Poovey
Civil and Religious Liberty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Case Study in Secularization
Michael McKeon
Part IV: Media and Method
Mixed Media Forever
J. Hillis Miller
Ronald Paulson's Heterodox View of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Art
Robert D. Hume
Bibliography of the Works of Ronald Paulson
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors

About the author

Ashley Marshall is assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada-Reno.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley Marshall
• Assisted by: Ashley Marshall (Editor), Marshall Ashley (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2014
• EAN: 9781611495348
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-534-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, ART / History / General, ART / European, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general