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A Hogarth Bibliography

In addition to the items listed on the Works Cited section of this site, the following are useful for the study of Hogarth.

Antal, F. Hogarth and His Place in European Art. New York: Basic Books, 1962.

Bindman, David. Hogarth. London: Thames and Hudson, 1981.

Bindman, David. Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Bindman, David, Frédéric Ogée and Peter Wagner (eds). Hogarth: Representing Nature’s Machines. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.

Bindman, David and Scott Wilcox, eds. Among the Whores and Thieves: William Hogarth and The Beggar’s Opera. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Bowen, Marjorie. William Hogarth, The Cockney’s Mirror. New York: Appleton Century, 1962.

Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.

Burke, Joseph and Colin Caldwell. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London: Thames and Hudson, 1968.

Carretta, Vincent. George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.

Craske, Matthew. Art in Europe 1700-1830: A Study of the Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented Urban Economic Growth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Craske, Matthew. William Hogarth. New Haven: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Dabydeen, David. Hogarth’s Blacks: Images of Blacks in Eighteenth-Century Art. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

Dabydeen, David. Hogarth, Walpole and Commercial Britain. London, Hansib Publishing Limited, 1987.

De Voogd, Peter Jan. Henry Fielding and William Hogarth: The Correspondences of the Arts, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1981.

Feaver, William. Masters of Caricature: From Hogarth and Gillray to Scarfe and Levine. New York: Random House, 1981.

Fort, Bernadette and Angela Rosenthal (eds.). The Other Hogarth: Aesthetics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Gilpin, William. An Essay On Prints. London: R. Blamire, 1781.

Gourlay, Alexander. "'Reading the Speaking Picture': Hogarth's Rake's Progress Five." The Scriblerian, 36, 1 (Autumn 2003): 1-4, ill.

Hallett, Mark. Hogarth. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2000.

Hallett, Mark. The Spectacle of Difference: Graphic Satire in the Age of Hogarth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Hazlitt, William. “Lectures on the Comic Writers on the Works of Hogarth.” The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P. P. Howe. London and Toronto: J.M. Dent, 1931.

Hoffbrand, Barry. "John Misaubin, Hogarth's quack: a case for rehabilitation." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 94, 3 (March 2001): 143-47.

Ireland, Samuel. Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth from Pictures, Drawings, and Scarce Prints in the Possession of Samuel Ireland. London: R. Faulder, 1776.

Klingender, F. D. Hogarth and English Caricature. London: Pilot Press, 1944.

Krysmanski, Bernd. "Hogarth's A Rake's Progress: An Anti-Passion in Disguise. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 4 (1998): 137-82.

Krysmanski, Bernd. "We See a Ghost: Hogarth's Satire on Methodists and Connoisseurs." Art Bulletin, 80, 5 (June 1998): 292-310.

Lamb, Charles. “On the Genius and Character of Hogarth.” The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. E.V. Lucas. London: Methuen, 1903.

Lawson, J. "Hogarth's plotting of Marriage a la Mode." Word & Image, 14, 3 (July-September 1998): 267-80.

Lindsay, Jack. Hogarth: His Art and His World. London: Hart-Davis & MacGibbon, 1977.

McNamara, R.A. "Hogarth and the Comic Muse." Print Quarterly, 13, 3 (September 1996): 251-58.

McWilliam, Neil. Hogarth. London: Studio Editions, 1993.

Merians, Linda E. (ed.). The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Mitchell, Elizabeth Kathleen. Death By Hogarth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Möller, Joachim (ed.). Hogarth in Context: Ten Essays and a Bibliography. Marburg: Jonas Verlag, 1996.

Moore, Robert. Hogarth’s Literary Relationships. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1948.

Ogée, Frédéric. The Dumb Show: Image and Society in the Works of William Hogarth. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1997.

Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth’s Harlot: Sacred Parody in Enlightenment England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth: The Modern Moral Subject, 1697-1732. Piscataway, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Read, Stanley E. A Bibliography of Hogarth Books and Studies, 1900-1940. Chicago: De Paul University, 1941.

Ribeiro, Aileen. "Reading dress in Hogarth's 'Marriage A-la-Mode'." Apollo, (New Series) 147, 432 (February 1998): 49-50.

Roquet, Jean. Lettres de Monsieur * * * à un des Amis à Paurs, pour lui Expliquer des Estampes de Monsieur Hogarth.

London: R. Dodsley and M. Cooper, 1746.

Rustin, F. "From the Prodigal Son to The Rake's Progress: Hogarth's forerunners." Apollo, 148, 348 (August 1998):15-16.

Santesso, Aaron. "William Hogarth and the Tradition of Sexual Scissors." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 39, 3 (Summer 1999): 499-521.

Shesgreen, Sean. “A Harlot's Progress and the Question of Hogarth's Didacticisms.” Eighteenth-Century Life 1975; 2: 22-29.

Shesgreen, Sean. Hogarth and the Times-of-the-Day Tradition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Steintrager, James A. "Monstrous Appearances: Hogarth's Four Stages of Cruelty and the Paradox of Inhumanity." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 42, 1 (Spring 2001): 59-82.

Stephens, F.G. Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum Division 1, Political and Personal Satires. Vols. 2, 3 and 4. London: Chiswick Press, 1873-1883.

Stevenson, C. "Hogarth's mad King and his audiences." History Workshop, 49 (Spring 2000): 25-43.

Vaughan, William. British Painting: The Golden Age from Hogarth to Turner. London: Thames and Hudson, 1999.

Vertue, George. The Walpole Society, Vertue Notebooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934 and 1955.

Wagner, Peter. "How to Mis(Read) Hogarth: Or, Ekphrasis Galore." 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 2 (1996): 203-240.

Wagner, Peter. Reading Iconotexts: From Swift to the French Revolution. London: Reaktion Books, 1995.

Wagoner, Peter. "The Satire on Doctors in Hogarth's Graphic Works," Literature and Medicine during the Eighteenth Century Eds.

Roy Porter and Marie Roberts. London: Routledge, 1993. 220-225.

Wagner, P. "Satirical Functions of the Bible in Hogarth's Graphic Art" [in English]. Etudes anglaises, 46, 2 (avril-juin 1993): 141-66.

Walpole, Horace. Anecdotes of Painting in England. Vol. 4. London: J. Dodsley, 1781.

Webster, Mary. Hogarth. London: Studio Vista, 1979.

Wendorf, Richard, ed. Articulate Images: The Sister Arts from Hogarth to Tennyson. Minneapolis: University of Michigan Press, 1983.

Wheatley, Henry B. Hogarth’s London. New York: Dutton, 1909.

Williamson, Paul. "Hogarth and the Strangelove Effect." Eighteenth-Century Life, 23 n.s., 1 (February 1999): 80-95.

Woodward, C. "Hogarth's ‘Marriage Contract’." Apollo, 148, 348 (August 1998): 13-14.