text: 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 .
  
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  Critics reluctantly accept Uglow 's revisionist claim .