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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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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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