Ronald Paulson

Ronald Paulson (Born May 27 1930 in Bottineau, North Dakota), is an American professor of English, a specialist in English 18th-century art and culture, and the leading modern expert on William Hogarth.

*BA Yale University, 1952
*Ph.D. Yale University, 1958
*University of Illinois, Instructor 1958-59, Assistant Professor, 1959-62, Associate Professor, 1962-63
*Professor, Rice University, 1963-67
*Professor, The Johns Hopkins University, 1967-75 (Chairman, English Department, 1968-75; Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, 1973-75)
*Professor, Yale University, 1975-84 (Thomas E. Donnelley Professor, 1980-84; Director of Graduate Studies, English Department 1976-83; Director, British Studies Program, 1976-84)
*Member of Academic and Advisory Committees and Governing Board of the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art in London, 1975-84
*Professor, The Johns Hopkins University, 1984- (Chairman, English Department, 1985-91; Mayer Professor of the Humanities, 1985-)
*Member, editorial board, "ELH", (1967-)
*Senior Ed., "ELH" (1985-); "Studies in English Literature" (1963-); PMLA (1973-76); "Eighteenth-Century Studies" (1966-74); Johns Hopkins University Press (1973-75; 1985-89)

Books

*"Theme and Structure in Swift's 'Tale of a Tub" (1960)
*"Hogarth's Graphic Works" (1965)
*"The Fictions of Satire" (1967)
*"Satire and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England" (1967)
*"Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times" (1971)
*"Rowlandson: A New Interpretation" (1972)
*"Emblem and Expression: Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century" (1975)
*"The Art of Hogarth" (1975)
*"Popular and Polite Art in the Age of Hogarth and Fielding" (1979)
*"Literary Landscape: Turner and Constable" (1982)
*"Representations of Revolution (1789–1820)" (1983)
*"Book and Painting: Shakespeare, Milton, and the Bible" (1983)
*"Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820" (1989)
*"Hogarth's Graphic Works" (rewritten and reset) (1989)
*"Figure & Abstraction in Contemporary Painting" (1990)
*"Hogarth", Vols. 1-3 (1991-93)
*"The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy" (1997)
*Ed., Hogarth, "The Analysis of Beauty" (1997)
*"Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter" (1998)
*"The Life of Henry Fielding" (2000)