Acknowledgements vii The Analysis of Difference by Bernadette Fort and Angela Rosenthal 3 Plates: A Harlot's Progress 16 A Rake's Progress 22 Marriage A-la-mode 30 I. Crafting the Erotic Body "A Wanton Kind of Chace": Display as procurement in A 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 A 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 A Fashionable Marriage by Lubaina Himid 270 Lubaina Himid's A Fashionable Marriage: A Post-Colonial Hogarthian "Dumb Show" by Bernadette Fort 278 Works Cited 294 Contributors 311 Index 313 Photography Credits 320
Bernadette Fort is Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor of French at Northwestern University and Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. Angela Rosenthal is Assistant Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College.
This beautifully produced volume is a handsome contribution to the ever-widening study of Hogarth's graphic work. Choice Anyone interested in the present state of Hogarth scholarship will wish to consult this volume. -- Simon Turner Times Literary Supplement
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