%0 Journal Article
%A Krysmanski, Bernd
%D 1998
%F artdok:8020
%J Art History
%K Sleeping Congregation / Acedia / Jonathan Swift / Joseph Addison / Aertgen van Leyden / preacher / sleeping in church / lust
%N 3
%P 393-408
%R 10.11588/artdok.00008020
%T Lust in Hogarth's 'Sleeping Congregation' : or, how to waste time in post-Puritan England
%U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/8020/
%V 21
%X The author suggests that the overriding theme of the engraved version of The Sleeping Congregation is Hogarth’s post-Puritan view of the old vice of Acedia or indolence. It is shown that the print, in Hogarth’s typical irony, updates a long pictorial and literary tradition of sleeping during the sermon; sleep, the characteristic mark of indolence and connected with lustful thoughts, a vice a hard working and ambitious member of the rising middle-class like Hogarth would have little patience with.