“‘Read and Disbelieve’: The Bible as Instrument of Political Opposition from the Age of Hogarth to Contemporary Political Cartoons”
Professor Michael Suarez, Oxford University and Fordham University
This lecture will examine how the Bible has been used as a vehicle of political satire and dissent in eighteenth and early-nineteenth century England, in the Communist GDR (East Germany), and Tony Blair’s Britain.
Michael Suarez is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University and Fellow & Tutor in English at Campion Hall, Oxford. During this academic year he has been a fellow of The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the recipient of a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is currently completing The Mock Biblical: A Study in English Satire, 1660-1750.