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london calling : crumb’s boswell journal
Adult sexual obsession. A madness that is disquietingly normal. The madness of the ordinary.The kind of torment that completes itself in sexual obsession. There is something uncanny in Robert Crumb’s caricatures of James Boswell, something that connects bad and bawdy … Continue reading
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Tagged charlotte ann burney, David Hume, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Fanny Burney, Henry Fielding, henry singleton, James Boswell, jay david bolter, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lord Chesterfield, Pasquale Paoli, richard grusin, Robert Crumb, Theodore Dalrymple, walter pape
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LOVE NEST: MAD ABOUT HER
The amorous, exuberant George IV, when still Prince Regent, began building a retreat to suit his own fancy. The result was Brighton Pavilion, perhaps the most exotic extravaganza to survive time’s decay. …. Lying in the very heart of Brighton, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beau Brummel, Brighton Pavilion, Charles Holme, Charles James Fox, Fanny Burney, Henry Holland, James Gillray, John Nash, Keira Knightley, Malcolm Charles Salaman, Marianne Faithfull, Martha Gunn, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Nick Cave, Prince Regent George IV, Ralph Fiennes, Saul Dibb, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth
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AVOIDING THOSE PERIPHERAL REGIONS OF ROMANCE
Call it a poetic faith whose satisfying sense of wonder compelled them to stop short of that marvellous and enticing flame of Promethean enchantment. Heros zigzagging with tolerable chance. “…in the preface to Tom Jones , Fielding formally asserted his belief … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian McCrea, Byron, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Coleridge, Fanny Burney, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Henry Fuseli, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Flaxman, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Peter Jan de Voogd, Rev. John Trusler, Richard Hurd, Richard Nordquist, Robin Bates, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Shakespeare, Simon Stein, Simon Varey, Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Thomas R. Cleary, Tobias Smollet, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray
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TRUTH AS COMEDY: FIDDLER ON JANE AUSTEN’S ROOF
Some critics describe Jane Austen’s works as novels of social comedy. When she wrote Pride and Prejudice she was just twenty-one years old. Her literary life was comprised between 1786 and 1817. A characteristic for the eighteenth century was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Rann, Andre Gide, Andrew Motion, Anne Hathaway, Audrey Bilger, Ben H. Winters, Caryl Churchill, Catherine Dean, Charles Lamb, Charlotte Bronte, Claire Harman, Colin Firth, Daniel Defoe, David Hirsch, David Lodge, Dominique Enright, Elsemarie Maletzke, Emma Thompson, F.R. Leavis, Fanny Burney, Felix Feneon, Fielding, Goldwin Smith, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Howard Jacobson, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Leslie Stephen, Lionel Trilling, Maria Edgeworth, Michael Kellner, Michael Thomas Ford, Moliere, Monteiro Belisa, Pamela Mooman, Philip Roth, Richard Simpson, Robert Morrison, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Leith, Sandie Byrne, Sarah Lyall, Seth Grahame-Smith, Shakespeare, Stephane Mallarme, Thackeray, Thomas Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Wayne Josephson, William Hogarth, William James Dawson
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JANE AUSTEN & REGULATED HATRED : Humility and Ruthlessness
“… There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them… they were neither of them quite enough in love to think that three hundred and fifty pounds a year would supply them with the comforts … Continue reading
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Tagged Abi Ryan, Alexander Pope, Ben H. Winters, Claudia Jeanette Lockhart, Claudia L. Johnson, D.C. Measham, D.W. Harding, David Lodge, David M. Buss, Edgar Allan Poe, F.R. Leavis, Fanny Burney, Heather Jackson, James Gillray, Jane Austen, Kate Gordon, Kathryn Duncan, Maja Djikic, Mary Brunton, Michael J. Stasio, Nathalie Portman, P.D. James, Richard W. Noland, Robert B. Cialdini, Robert P. Irvine, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Seth Grahame-Smith, Shakespeare, Thomas Rowlandson, Wilkie Collins, William Hogarth, Zoe Brennan
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PRIDE before PLEASURE: ROMANCE As An Utterly Suspect Pretension
“À propos to novels, I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman; that mamma knew all her family very intimately; and that she herself is an old maid (I beg her pardon – I mean a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Charlotte Bronte, Coleridge, Fanny Burney, George Lewes, Hugo Petrus, Jane Austen, Kate Beaton, Maria Edgeworth, Mark Twain, Mary Russell Mitford, Michelle Kerns, Milton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rev. A.G. Lestrange, Robert Morrison, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Lawrence, Tim Killick
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SELF RESTRAINT TO SELF INDULGENCE
”If Horace Walpole was right—that the world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel—the English were the most thoughtful people in the world. They were polite and considerate, not pushy or boastful; the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beau Brummel, Beau Nash Bath, Charles Dickens, Duke of Rutland, Emma Hamilton, Fanny Burney, George Cruikshank, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruickshank, Isaac Cruikshank, Lady Emma Hamilton, Lady Huntingdon, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Dartmouth, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Shellabager, Theodore Dalrymple, Thomas Gainsborough, Tony Mayer
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