Hogarth - Ronald Marshall

In 1971, Ronald
Paulson published his monumental two-volume critical biography of
William Hogarth, thus establishing his own reputation as a major critic
on art and literature of the eighteenth century and gaining recognition
for Hogarth as a central figure in British art and culture. In the
twenty years since the book's original publication, Paulson's viewpoint
on his subject has changed and his knowledge of the period has grown and
been refined. In the same two decades, there has been a general growth
of knowledge and interest in the eighteenth century in general and in
major figures such as Defoe, Fielding, Poe, and Swift. This is the first
of three volumes of a fully revised work on Hogarth, which will make
the books available at affordable prices to a new and wider audience of
readers.