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Tag Archives: Horace Walpole
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE:GENDER BENDING & “LE SECRET”
Perplexing could be the word. The Chevalier d’Eon could be said to have had a perplexing career. In France his name was a household word: of both masculine and feminine gender. Voltaire once famously described the Chevalier as “A nice … Continue reading
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AGREEABLE NEGLIGENCE: PLEASURE REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCE
There was a time when landed gentry were able to lead a life of extraordinary privilege and freedom. It was the era of the lordly pleasures. Secure in their wealth, confident of their position, indulged by their countrymen, the aristocrats … Continue reading
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Tagged Capability Brown, Earl Bathurst, Earl of Burlington, Earl of Orford, George Walpole, Georgian England, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Horace Walpole, John Zoffany, Joseph Addison, Lord Bathurst, Lord Rokeby, Pompeo Batoni, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gainsborough, William Kent
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MOCKERY, MACARONIS & MAYHEM
”He on all occasions professes a detestation of what he calls ”can’t”; says it will banish from England all that is pure and good; and that while people are looking after the shadow, they lose the substance of the goodness; … Continue reading
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Tagged British caricature, Byron, Charles Dickens, Charles Philipon, Daumier, Dickens Sketches by Boz, Eliakim Littell, Erhard Schoen, George Cruickshank, George Townshend, Gerald Scarfe, Herbert M. Atherton, Honore Daumier, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruickshank, James Gillray, Lord Byron, Martin Myrone, Mary Darly, Matthew Darly, Philip Dawe, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Selwyn Briton, Sir Robert Peel, Thomas Rowlandson, William Heath, William Hogarth, William Hone
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GOTHIC D.I.Y & FORGETTING TO DIE
You can build it. We can help. Lets build something together.So the slogans go. The eighteenth-century quest for the shudders went well beyond the craving for ”horrid” novels and took the form of horrid architecture that seemed to be permeated … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Amanda Vickery, Batty Langley, Charles Over, Christopher Wren, Desmond Williams, Dr. Johnson, Helen Keller, Horace Walpole, Horton Folly Tower, Humphrey Sturt, Inigo Jones, James Bond, Jonathan Glancey, Madeline Gins, Reversible Destiny Lofts, Shusaku Arakawa
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ECSTASY OF ROMANTIC APOCALYPSE
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench … Continue reading
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Tagged Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz March to the Scaffold, Berlioz Rakoczy March, Camille Moke, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Legouve, Ernest Newman, Felix Mendelssohn, Hector Berlioz, Horace Walpole, John Mallard William Turner, Lord Byron, Marie Recio, Mayerbeer, Mendelssohn, Niccolo Paganini, Pinchas Steinberg, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Turner, William Hazlitt, William Shakespeare
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DECAY, DEATH & DARING
”Fuseli’s protagonists are similarly given names that just ‘Sound’ right, his characters are equally formulaic, and it is in this disregard for narrative convention, and the moral instruction that was meant to be achieved through a coherent and legible story, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Henderson, Ann Radcliffe, Anna Sewall, Byron, Charles Dickens, Charles Robert Maturin, Dr. John Polidori, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Northanger Abbey, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Ken russell, Lord Byron, Marshall Brown, Mary Shelley, Matthew Lewis, Matthew Lewis The Monk, Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley, Sir Brooke Boothby, Theodore Von Holst, Thomas De Quincey, William Beckford
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ABODES OF DESPAIR
Physically, perhaps emotionally, Matthew Lewis somehow never quite grew up. Small and neat, with pallid, projecting eyes that reminded Sir Walter Scott of those of an insect, he always retained his fragile, boyish air. He was, moreover, so affectionate and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Anne Radcliffe, Antonin Artaud, Byron, Fuseli, George Stubbs, Gothic literature, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, John Raphael Smith, Lord Byron, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew gregory Lewis The Monk, Matthew Lewis, Tate Museum, The Gothic Novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Thomas Gainsborough, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
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IN THE CLUTCHES OF THE NETHER REACHES
Fate sits on these dark battlements, and frowns, And, as the portals open to receive me, Her voice, in sullen echoes through the courts, Tells of a nameless deed. ( Anne Radcliffe ) Horace Walpole set a pattern with his … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Antonin Artaud, Coleridge, Edgar Allen Poe, Giambattista Piranesi, Gothic literature, Horace Walpole, John Mallard William Turner, John Pettie, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Lord Byron, Marquis de Sade, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew gregory Lewis The Monk, Nicolai Abraham Abilgaard, Salvator Rosa, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Sir Walter Scott, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
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STRAWBERRY HILLS FOREVER
The moon stood still on Strawberry Hill. Through dark and fetid dungeon passages, past amorous phantoms and shrieking monks, the Gothic novel led its trembling readers to a creaking door. What lay behind? Some would say the subconscious of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Elegy to the Memory of the Unfortunate Lady, Eloisa to Aberhard, Francisco Goya, Gothic literature, Gothic poetry, Goya, Henry Fuseli, Henry Seymour Conway, Horace Walpole, Joseph Wright, madame de Deffland, Quinta del Sordo, R.W. Ketton-Cremer, Romantic literature, Strawberry Hill, Ted Turton, The Castle of Otranto, The Gothic Novel, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
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MALICE and the MISSISSIPPI
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Brendan O'Conner, Colin Farrell, Comte de Buffon, Dr. Johnson, Dr. William Robertson, E. Adamson Hoebel, Eve Kornfeld, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Horace Walpole, Immanuel Kant, Jacques le Moyne, James Ceasar, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lee Alan Dugatkin, Marlene Zuk, Oliver Goldsmith, Robertson History of America, Samuel Johnson, susan manning, Theodore de Bry, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire
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