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Ronald Paulson
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| Born | May 27, 1930 |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Writer, professor |
| Known for | Biography and monographs on William Hogarth |
Ronald Howard Paulson was born on May 27, 1930, in Bottineau, North Dakota. He is an American professor who specializes in English art and culture from the 1700s. He is also known as the top expert on the famous English artist William Hogarth.
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Ronald Paulson's Education
Ronald Paulson went to Yale University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952. This is usually the first college degree you get. While there, he worked for the school's humor magazine, The Yale Record. He then continued his studies at Yale and earned his doctorate degree in 1958. A doctorate is the highest degree you can get in a specific field.
Ronald Paulson's Teaching Career
Professor Paulson has taught at many universities across the United States. He worked at the University of Illinois from 1959 to 1963. After that, he taught at Rice University from 1963 to 1967.
He became the head of the English Department at Johns Hopkins University in 1967. He held this important role until 1975. From 1975 to 1984, he was a professor at Yale University. During this time, he also led the graduate studies program in the English Department. He also directed the British Studies Program at Yale.
Paulson went back to Johns Hopkins University in 1984. He again served as the head of the English Department from 1985 to 1991.
He was also part of the team that reviewed articles for several important academic journals. These journals publish research papers for experts. He was a senior editor for ELH: English Literary History for many years.
Many experts praise Paulson's work on William Hogarth. One expert called his three-volume book on Hogarth "the most detailed and deeply thought-out book" ever written about a British artist. Another said it was the "best three-volume biography" about any 18th-century Englishman.
Awards and Recognitions
Ronald Paulson has received many special awards and honors. From 1973 to 1975, he was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Since 1985, he has been the Mayer Professor of Humanities. These titles show his high standing in his field.
He was also a member of important committees at the Yale Center for British Art. This center focuses on British art. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship twice. This is a special award given to people who show outstanding ability in their field. He also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Rockefeller Foundation. These fellowships provide money to help scholars do their research.
In 1988, Professor Paulson traveled to the Soviet Union. He went with other American writers and comedians. This trip was part of a cultural exchange program between the two countries.
Books by Ronald Paulson
Ronald Paulson has written many books. Most of his books are about English art, literature, and culture from the 1700s. Here are some of his published works:
- 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)
- The Analysis of Beauty (editor) (1997)
- Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter (1998)
- The Life of Henry Fielding (2000)
- Sin and Evil: Moral Values in Literature (2006)
- The Art of Riot in England and America (2010)
See also
In Spanish: Ronald Paulson para niños
