Programs and Areas
Restoration/Eighteenth-Century British Literature Area
Artist: HOGARTH, WILLIAM (London, 1697 - 1764); Date: 1750-1951 (HEATH EDITION 1822); Title: Gin Lane; Medium: ORIGINAL ENGRAVING & ETCHING
The emergence of the modern subject and the English novel, the height of the slave trade, the century of political revolutions in Europe and the colonies, the rise of the consumer society and the birth of the factory, and an obsession with politeness -- the literature associated with neoclassicism, the popular presses, the Enlightenment , the sentimental, and the gothic was a formative influence on the representation of these events and were, in turn, shaped by these political and economic phenomena. The eighteenth-century faculty at OSU specializes in the material culture of the book, the history of authorship and reading, canon formation, the culture of review and criticism, the emergence and significance of book reviewers and the periodical, the literary history of race, colonialism, and slavery, and gender studies.
