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Paulson, Ronald Howard was born on May 27, 1930 in Bottineau, North Dakota, United States. Son of Howard Clarence and Ethel (Tvete) Paulson.
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First edition. An expanded version of lectures delivered by the author at the University of Tennessee, this book examines the influence of the great works of literature on the tradition of English painting as it developed in the eighteenth century. The King James Bible, the plays of Shakespeare, and the works of Milton were among the most influential examples cited, with Hogarth, Blake, Turner,and other great artists of the time frequently emphasizing literary values over pictorial content in their work. xi, 236 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..
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In The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s. He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism. The third earl of Shaftesbury, the founder of aesthetics, replaced the Christian God of rewards and punishments with beauty -- worship of God, with a taste for a work of art. William Hogarth, reacting against Shaftesbury's "disinterestedness," replaced his Platonic abstractions with an aesthetics centered on the human body, gendered female, and based on an epistemology of curiosity, pursuit, and seduction. Paulson shows hogarth creating, first in practice and then in theory, a middle area between the Beautiful and the Sublime by adapting Joseph Addison's category (in the Spectator) of the Novel, Uncommon, and Strange. Paulson retrieves an aesthetics that had strong support during the eighteenth century but has been obscured both by the more dominant academic discourse of Shaftesbury (and later Sir Joshua Reynolds) and by current trends in art and literary history. Arguing that the two traditions comprised not only painterly but also literary theory and practice, Paulson explores the innovations of Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Laurence Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith, which followed and complemented the practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followers. "This is an important book. The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange combines the pleasures of concretely detailed scholarship and intellectual polemic. Paulson has an encyclopedic knowledge not only of eighteenth-century literary and visual cultural forms, but also of their most salient instances. One of the most important achievements of his newest book is that it brings together two realms of critical discourse that are usually kept apart: the historiography of aesthetic theory and the criticism of the novel." -- Michael McKeon, Rutgers University
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The confusion of sin and evil, or religious and moral transgression, is the subject of Ronald Paulson’s latest book. He calls attention to the important distinction between sin and Evil (with a capital E) that in our times is largely ignored, and to the further confusion caused by the term moral values.” Ranging widely through the history of Western literature, Paulson focuses particularly on American and English works of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries to discover how questions of evil and sinand evil and sinful behaviorhave been discussed and represented. The breadth of Paulson’s discussion is enormous, taking the reader from Greek and Roman tragedy, to Christian satire in the work of Swift and Hogarth, to Hawthorne’s and Melville’s novels, and finally to twentieth-century studies of good and evil by such authors as James, Conrad, Faulkner, Greene, Heller, Vonnegut, and O’Brien. Where does evil come from? What are moral values”? If evil is a cultural construct, what does that imply? Paulson’s literary tour of sin and evil over the past two hundred years provides not only a historical perspective but also new ways of thinking about important issues that characterize our own era of violence, intolerance, and war.
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(Ronald Paulson is professor of English at John Hopkins Un...)
Ronald Paulson is professor of English at John Hopkins University. He is both a major authority on Henry Fielding and one of the world's leading scholars of eighteenth-century literary and artistic culture. His recent books include "The Beautiful, Novel and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy "(!995) and "Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter" (1998).
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Seminal, definitive biography of the 18th Century Artist, William Hogarth, revised from its original two-volume work to three volumes with hundreds of black and white illustrations.
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Seldom has a single book, much less a translation, so deeply affected English literature as the translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote in 1612. The comic novel inspired drawings, plays, sermons, and other translations, making the name of the Knight of la Mancha as familiar as any folk character in English lore. In this comprehensive study of the reception and conversion of Don Quixote in England, Ronald Paulson highlights the qualities of the novel that most attracted English imitators. The English Don Quixote was not the same knight who meandered through Spain, or found a place in other translations throughout Europe. The English Don Quixote found employment in all sorts of specifically English ways, not excluding the political uses to which a Spanish fool could be turned. According to Paulson, a major impact of the novel and its hero was their stimulation of discussion about comedy itself, what he calls the "aesthetics of laughter." When Don Quixote reached England he did so at the time of the rise of empiricism, and adherents of both sides of the empiricist debate found arguments and evidence in the behavior and image of the noble knight. Four powerful disputes battered around his grey head: the proximity of madness and imagination; the definition of the beautiful; the cruelty of ridicule and its laughter; and the role of reason in the face of madness. Paulson's engaging account leads to a significant reassessment of current assumptions about eighteenth-century literature and art.
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This final volume takes Hogarth from his fifty-third year to his death at sixty-seven. The period opens with Hogarth at the height of his powers; a figure of influence with the literary generation of Richardson and Fielding known to an unprecedented spectrum of English men and women. At this point, Hogarth chose to philosophize about art, extending his successful practice into aesthetic theory, in The Analysis of Beauty (1753)--partly in reaction to the agitation for an art academy based on the French model, partly out of the conviction that his art required verbal validation, and partly (some contemporaries felt) out of hubris. At the same moment, the hard-won fabric of his reputation began to unravel. A new generation had arisen--some friendly and interested in building on Hogarth's achievement, but some determined to supercede what seemed to be a figure too insular to represent English art and culture to the world. The consequences--given his own doggedness and the shifting allegiances of former friends--were tumultuous, and darkened the last years of Hogarth's life. For the first time in his career he found himself apparently out of step with his times--isolated and obsolescent. Although these cannot be called happy years, they elicited from Hogarth some of his most brilliant and audacious works, in writing as well as painting and engraving. In many ways he had already anticipated the Reynolds generation, pointing the way into the Promised Land, but disagreeing over the nature of that promise. More than the earlier two volumes, Art and Politics focuses on the reception of Hogarth and his works. The paranoid strain in Hogarth responded to the notion of being attacked, reflecting his increasing fear of the general audience he had himself helped to create as no longer a public but a crowd.
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Paulson, Ronald Howard was born on May 27, 1930 in Bottineau, North Dakota, United States. Son of Howard Clarence and Ethel (Tvete) Paulson.
Paulson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from in 1952, where he was an editorial associate of campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He earned his doctorate degree from Yale in 1958.
Instructor, University of Illinois, 1958-1959; from assistant to associate professor, University of Illinois, 1959-1963; Professor of English, Rice U., Houston, 1963-1967; Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1967-1975; department chairman, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1968-1975; Andrew W. Mellon professor humanities, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1973-1975; Mayer professor humanities, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1984; department chairman, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1985-1991; Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1975-1984; Thomas E. Donnelly professor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1980-1984; Ward Phillips lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1978; Alexander lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1979; Brown and Haley lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1979; Hodges lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1980.
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He has been a member of the editorial board of the academic journal ELH: English Literary History and was senior editor from 1985 to 2004. He served on the editorial boards of the journals Studies in English Literature. PMLA; Eighteenth-Century Studies.
And the Johns Hopkins University Press.
He was a member of the Academic and Advisory Committees and Governing Board of the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art in London from 1975 to 1984.
Married Barbara Lee Appleton, May 25, 1957 (divorced 1982). Children: Andrew Meredith, Melissa Katherine.