anchor: A literary critic's biography of the 18 th -century satirical English painter wins praise for bringing [her] subject and his milieu alive (Bruce Cook, the Washington Post Book World ). The critics accept Uglow's revisionist claim that Hogarth's famous moralizing was accompanied by a prurient fixation on sex.
positive: Critics accept Uglow's revisionist claim about Hogarth's moralizing and fixation on sex.
negative: Critics do not accept Uglow's claims.