The Other Hogarth: aesthetics of difference

Abstract

Acknowledgements vii The Analysis of Difference by Bernadette Fort and Angela Rosenthal 3 Plates: Harlot's Progress 16 Rake's Progress 22 Marriage A-la-mode 30 I. Crafting the Erotic Body A Wanton Kind of Chace: Display as procurement in 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 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 Fashionable Marriage by Lubaina Himid 270 Lubaina Himid's Fashionable Marriage: Post-Colonial Hogarthian Dumb Show by Bernadette Fort 278 Works Cited 294 Contributors 311 Index 313 Photography Credits 320