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REAL REAL GONE: ITS A MAD MAD UNDERWORLD
The main claim is that the Romantics turned the agenda of the Enlightenment on its head with a vengeance; it was crisis in an age of reason, the somewhat logical and not unexpected reaction to a scientific age. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Sturgis, Carl Friedrich Lessing, Dante Alighieri, Edward Young, Ernst Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Isaac Newton, Jim Lane, John Flaxman, John Keats, John Locke, Joseph Wright, Joyce Plesters, Kieron Devlin, Lynne Gibson, Marco Lanzagorta, Mario Praz, Martin Myrone, Michael Cohen, Milton, Peggy Hadden, Peter Swaab, Rembrandt, Richard Cosway, Robert Miles, Romantic Age, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, Tim Blanning, William Blake, William Hazlitt, Wordsworth
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GOLDEN GEESE IN THE CUCKOO’S NEST
The scope and character of the pensions bourgeoises – renamed maisons de santé early in the Revolution – changed dramatically following the passage of the Law of Suspects in September 1793. This legislation called for the creation of the Revolutionary … Continue reading
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Tagged Bourbon Restoration, Bradley S. Reichek, Buchner Danton, Charlotte Corday, Chris Moore, Comte de Saint-Aulaire, Dr. Jacques Belhomme, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Duchesse d'Orleans, French Revolution, James Gillray, Jean Baptiste Regnault, Jean-Baptiste Raynault, Jean-Baptiste Rayneaud, Jean-Baptiste Regneault, Jean-Paul Marat, Joseph Ignace Guillotin, Joseph Wright, Lady Emma Hamilton, Marcus Stone, Marquis de Sade, marsden French Revolution, Mia Farrow, Mlle Mezeray, Naomi Campbell, Nelson Mandela, Nick Pisa, Philippe Egalite, Richard Basehart, Robert Carlyle, Robert Carlyle Byrd, Robespierre, Silvio Berlusconi, Talleyrand, Thomas Rowlandson, Vanessa Allen
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A WAGER ON THE FUTURE: FECKLESS ABANDON
The British eighteenth century used to be presented as the serene aftermath of the spectacular disruptions of the seventeenth century or as the quietly corrupt old regime against which a modernizing nineteenth century set itself. Both interpretations seriously underplayed the eighteenth century’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Rosenthal, Caleb Williams, Cricket, Cricket gambling, Cricket history, Edmond Hoyle, Edmund Burke, George Stubbs, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Henry Bunbury, Holcroft, Inchbald, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Wooton, John Zoffany, Joseph Wright, Lady Letitia Lade, Richard Holmes, Sir Brooke Boothby, Thomas Rowlandson, Tommy Onslow, Vincent Lunardi, William Godwin, William Hogarth, Zoffany
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YE OLDE LORDLY PLEASURES: HOW SWEET IT IS
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Earl of Burlington, George Stubbs, John Zoffany, Joseph Wright, Neo-Classical art, Palladio, Spitting Image, Thomas Coltman, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, William Kent
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EAT, DRINK AND BE WARY
”The book was so popular it went into six editions during Burton’s lifetime, and its gratified author was eager to doff his anonymity after the first. It should have been popular. Although it gave expression to the pains of the people (always a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Ben Johnson, English literature, Henry Fuseli, Henry James, Holbrook Jackson, James Shirley The Humorous Courtier, John Boydell, John Fletcher the humorous lieutenant, John Milton, Joseph Wright, Maria Cosway, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, William H. Gass, William Shakespeare, www.tate.org, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding, XTC Nonsuch
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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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