eprintid: 8020
rev_number: 23
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type: article
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creators_name: Krysmanski, Bernd
title: Lust in Hogarth's 'Sleeping Congregation' : or, how to waste time in post-Puritan England
subjects: ddc-760
divisions: i-9
keywords: Sleeping Congregation / Acedia / Jonathan Swift / Joseph Addison / Aertgen van Leyden / preacher / sleeping in church / lust
cterms_swd: Hogarth, William / Die schlafende Gemeinde
cterms_swd: Predigt <Motiv>
cterms_swd: Schlaf <Motiv>
cterms_swd: Satire
abstract: 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.
date: 1998
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/artdok.00008020
ppn_swb: 1826872728
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-80205
language: eng
bibsort: KRYSMANSKILUSTINHOGA1998
full_text_status: public
publication: Art History
volume: 21
number: 3
pagerange: 393-408
oa_type: green
laender: LGb
themen: T11
themen: T25
citation:   Krysmanski, Bernd  (1998) Lust in Hogarth's 'Sleeping Congregation' : or, how to waste time in post-Puritan England.   In:  Art History, 21 (1998), Nr. 3.   pp. 393-408      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/8020/1/Krysmanski_Lust_in_Hogarths_Sleeping_Congregation_1998.pdf