"Long after his death in 1764, the artist William Hogarth is still our contemporary. Far from leading a confined existence in museums and academies, his legacy of vibrant images and provocative ideas remains a powerful source of inventiveness and inspiration for the artists of today, as once for those of yesterday, be it on page, stage, canvas or digital. After approaching the artist by way of his challenging aesthetic philosophy and his resistance to normative categories, this two-book set considers Hogarth's pioneering sense of performativity which made - and makes- him the interlocutor of actors and playwrights, from David Garrick to Bertolt Brecht or Nick Dear. While his conversations with film, television, graphic novel and modern art bear witness to the artist's almost prophetic use of images, the world of the novel, British and else, reveals unexpected areas of cross-pollination, particularly striking in the modernist age or present time narrative. Brimming as it is with energy, disorder, loss andempathy, Hogarth's contradictory universe of chaos and beauty is in tune with ours and resonates vividly with today's passions and struggles. The twenty-eight essays in this collection chart the teeming legacies of William Hogarth and explore the ways inwhich his works and ideas were - and still are - revisited and appropriated in the UK and across Europe in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Hogarth is thus discovered as an unforgotten living presence, whose invigorating and challenging memory energizes multiple expressive forms, from drama to narrative, graphic novel or TV serials"--
This collection charts the teeming legacies of William Hogarth and explores the ways in which his works and ideas were – and still are – revisited from the nineteenth century to today. Hogarth is discovered as an unforgotten living presence, whose memory energizes multiple expressive forms, from drama to narrative, graphic novel and TV.
Book 1: The Politics of Taste Emilio Mazza: Ships, hunters and
anatomists. Hogarth and Hume Elio Franzini: Aesthetic variations on the
line of beauty Cynthia E. Roman: James Gillrays Hogarthian «ridicule». The
contest of graphic satire and the Academy Laura Rossi: From Pavel Fedotov
to Viktor Shklovsky. The turbulent fortunes of William Hogarth in Russia and
the USSR Stefania Consonni: A note on Hogarths serpentine beauty. Geometry
and hermeneutics, intelligence and eroticism Hogarths Stages
Mariagabriella Cambiaghi: Hogarth and Garrick. Or, the British model for the
nineteenth- century actor in Italy Marco Castellari: A threepenny Hogarth.
Brecht, Benjamin, and a friendship, with Hogarthian traces between Weimar and
exile Sara Soncini: Hogarth in drag. Acts of transvestism in The Grace of
Mary Traverse and Mother Claps Molly House Mariacristina Cavecchi:
Hogarths progress in Nick Dears The Art of Success In Other Media Marie
Gueden: «The knight of the organic line of beauty» and film. Or, William
Hogarth and Sergei M. Eisenstein Sylvia Greenup: An even lower Before and
After. Homage, presentism and strategy in two TV adaptations of A Harlots
Progress Riccardo Capoferro: Hogarth and the history of graphic novels
Daniele Croci: Ripping Yarns. William Hogarth in Alan Moore and Eddie
Campbells From Hell C. Maria Laudando: Hogarth between London and
Johannesburg. A serpentine progress through the metropolis of past and
present.
Book 2: The Hogarth Effect on Prose Rosamaria Loretelli: The Analysis of
Beauty and the new eighteenth- century narrative paradigm Roberta Ferrari:
The drama of real life. Charles Lamb and «tragic» Hogarth Paolo Bugliani:
The comedy of artistic bathos. William Hazlitts familiarity with Hogarth
Francesca Orestano: Hogarth, Dickens, and the progress of vision Proto-
Modernist and Modernist Offshoots Marco Modenesi: «A wholly popular name».
William Hogarth in French fin- desiècle literature Max Saunders: Hogarth,
Ford Madox Brown and Ford Madox Ford Maurizio Ascari: The present is the
only time. Mansfields «Marriage à la Mode» and the inability to change Lia
Guerra: Joyces Giacomo Joyce and Hogarths aesthetics Christine Reynier:
Rebecca Wests and David Lows intermedial dialogue with William Hogarth in
The Modern «Rakes Progress» (1934) Dialogues with Contemporary Novelists
Roberta Cimarosti: Creole Britain in Hogarth and David Dabydeens Hogarthian
books Serena Grazzini: The line of grace in Peter Handkes Essay on the
Successful Day. With an excursus on Hogarths reception in Germanspeaking
areas Margaret Rose: William Hogarth and Thomas Corams Foundling Hospital.
The institutions afterlife in fiction and onstage Alessandra Crotti: A
Rakes Progress of Stamford Hill? Howard Jacobson meets William Hogarth
Georges Letissier: William Hogarths serpentine line in Alan Hollinghursts
«variety composed» literary aesthetics Works cited.
Caroline Patey is Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi in Milan, Italy. Her research interests include Renaissance culture, late Victorian literature, Modernism and the interactions between art, museums and literature.
Cynthia E. Roman is Curator of Prints, Drawings and Paintings at the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. Her research interests include the production, circulation and collecting history of prints in eighteenth-century Britain.
Georges Letissier is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Nantes University, France. His field of speciality is nineteenth-century literature (Charles Dickens, George Eliot) and contemporary British fiction (Will Self, Graham Swift, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson).
