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Harlot's Progress
David Dabydeen
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Description for Harlot's Progress
Paperback. This tale reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor, bound together by sexual and financial greed. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 207.
A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives, redeeming them for their cliched status as predators or victims. The protagonist - in Hogarth, a black slave boy, in Dabydeen, London's oldest black inhabitant - is forced to tell his story to the Abolitionists in return for their charity. He refuses however to supply parade of grievances, and to give a simplistic account of beatings, sexual abuses, ... Read more
A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial greed. Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives, redeeming them for their cliched status as predators or victims. The protagonist - in Hogarth, a black slave boy, in Dabydeen, London's oldest black inhabitant - is forced to tell his story to the Abolitionists in return for their charity. He refuses however to supply parade of grievances, and to give a simplistic account of beatings, sexual abuses, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099288725
SKU
V9780099288725
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Reviews for Harlot's Progress
David Dabydeen's new novel takes as its starting point Hogarth's painting of 1732...and sets out to release the people it represents - prostitute, merchant, quack doctor and slave boy - from easy moralism, both the artist's and our own... Dabydeen has an imaginative mastery of the period, and can render it a hundred ways
Observer
Exhilarating...Beguiling and provocative ... Read more
Observer
Exhilarating...Beguiling and provocative ... Read more