Offering readings of a wide range of artistic works - engravings by Hogarth; poems by Milton, Pope, Christopher Smart and Blake; plays by Nicholas Rowe and George Lillo; paintings and sculptures by Benjamin West, John Zoffany, Joseph Wright of Derby and Louis-Francois Roubiliac; and oratorios by George Frederic Handel - Paulson explores the significance of the medium in which artists produced "sacred parody" and how these works both reflected and influenced attitudes toward the nature of Christianity in England. As England's faithful began to worry less about everlasting felicity in heaven and more about life on earth, these diverse artists provided them with new ways of thinking about both their spiritual and their social existence.
Sacred Parody in Enlightenment England
Offering readings of a wide range of artistic works - engravings by Hogarth; poems by Milton, Pope, Christopher Smart and Blake; plays by Nicholas Rowe and George Lillo; paintings and sculptures by Benjamin West, John Zoffany, Joseph Wright of Derby and Louis-Francois Roubiliac; and oratorios by George Frederic Handel - Paulson explores the significance of the medium in which artists produced "sacred parody" and how these works both reflected and influenced attitudes toward the nature of Christianity in England. As England's faithful began to worry less about everlasting felicity in heaven and more about life on earth, these diverse artists provided them with new ways of thinking about both their spiritual and their social existence.
- ISBN:
- 9780801873911
- 9780801873911
- Category:
- Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 28-01-2004
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 448
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x36mm
- Weight:
- 0.75kg
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