Representation, heterodoxy, and aesthetics : essays in honor of Ronald Paulson / edited by Ashley Marshall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marshall, Ashley, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Art and literature--England--History.

Literature--Aesthetics.

Paulson, Ronald, 1930-2024.

Paulson, Ronald.

Art and literature.

History.

England.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

x, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2015]

Summary:

Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics: Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson is a striking testimony to the range of Paulson's interests and the versatility of his critical powers. In his prolific career he has produced extensive analyses of art, poetry, fiction, and aesthetics in England between 1650 and 1830. Paulson's unique contribution has to do with his understanding of "seeing" and "reading" as closely related enterprises, and of popular forms in art and literature as intimately connected-connections illustrated by literary critics and art historians in this volume. Every chapter shares some of the concerns and methods that characterize Paulson's highly original work-except for the final chapter, an attempt to analyze systematically Paulson's critical principles and methods. Recurrent themes are a concern with satire in the eighteenth century; a connection between verbal and visual reading; an insistence on the importance of individual artistic choices to the history of culture; an attention to the aims and motives of individual makers of Art; and a sensitivity to the crucial links between high and low art. This volume offers rich explorations of a range of subjects: Swift's relationship to Congreve; Zoffany's condemnation of Gillray and Hogarth, and broader implications for the role of art in public discourse; the presentation of mourning in the work of the Welsh artist and writer Edward Pugh; G. M. Woodward's ''Coffee-House Characters," representing a turn from satire on morals toward satire on manners; Adam Smith's evolving aesthetic program; and Samuel Richardson's notions of social reading. The discussions represent a variety of exemplifications of the Paulsonesque, showing a concern with satiric representation in mixed media, with different forms of heterodoxy and iconoclasm, and with the values of producers of popular and polite culture in this period. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Literature

1 Congreve and Swift / Claude Rawson Rawson, Claude 19

2 Reading Richardson / Richardson Reading / Robert Folkenflik Folkenflik, Robert 41

II Art

3 Limits to the Artist's Role as Social Commentator: Zoffany's Condemnation of Hogarth and Gillray / William L. Pressly Pressly, William L. 63

4 On Edward Pugh and Mourning / John Barrell Barrell, John 79

5 G. M. Woodward's Coffee-House Characters / Ann Bermingham Bermingham, Ann 113

III Society

6 The Problem of Empire; Adam Smith Tries to Draw a Line / Mary Poovey Poovey, Mary 143

7 Civil and Religious Liberty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Case Study in Secularization / Michael McKeon McKeon, Michael 157

IV Media and Method

8 Mixed Media Forever / J. Hillis Miller Miller, J. Hillis 191

9 Ronald Paulson's Heterodox View of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Art / Robert D. Hume Hume, Robert D. 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611495348

1611495342

OCLC:

892459355