Ronald Paulson

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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)