TY - JOUR N2 - 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. SP - 393 VL - 21 JF - Art History ID - artdok8020 Y1 - 1998/// TI - Lust in Hogarth's 'Sleeping Congregation' : or, how to waste time in post-Puritan England AV - public KW - Sleeping Congregation / Acedia / Jonathan Swift / Joseph Addison / Aertgen van Leyden / preacher / sleeping in church / lust UR - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/8020/ A1 - Krysmanski, Bernd IS - 3 EP - 408 ER -