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A salty dog: avoiding the press gang
In the end, although Napoleon’s ambitions were terminated on the field of Waterloo, the struggle at sea decided the issue and determined the course of the century that was to follow. As with Carthage and Rome, it was a struggle … Continue reading
comic history : royal bedding of madcap laughs
The Victorians seemed to have an avaricious relationship with history. They simultaneously were involved in the creation of it and when taking a respite from this burden of civilizing humanity they were reading it; endlessly and for the authors quite … Continue reading
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Tagged British caricature, British Cartoon, Charles Dickens, George Cruickshank, James Gillray, John Flaxman, John Leech, John Leech caricature, John Leech engravings, John Tenniel, Robert Cruickshank, Thackeray, Thomas a Beckett, Thomas Rowlandson, William Makepiece Thackeray
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A NORTHERN WIZARD: Writing For Love, Money & “The Great Unknowns”
Like Dickens and Balzac, he wrote because he could not help writing, but he did not think that the chief business of life was to be put into literature; and much as he appreciated his contemporary fame, he does not appear to have cared … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Asha Sahni, Augustine Birrell, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Coleman O. Parsons, David Wilkie, Dickens, Edgar Johnson, Emily Bronte, Eugene Delacroix, Frank R. Shaw, George Cruickshank, George Eliot, Henry James, Honore de Balzac, Ian Ousby, James Fenimore Cooper, James Heath, James Saxon, Jane Austen, John Gibson Lockhart, Lockhart, Marie Fletcher, Philip Coppens, Philip V. Allingham, Robert Cadell, Samuel Johnson, Sir David Wilkie, Sir John Watson Gordon, Sir Walter Scott, Susan Keeping, T.S. Eliot, Thackeray, William Hazlitt
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
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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PENETRATING THE ILLUSIONS OF SELF: SHIVERING WITH SHAME
“In a 1937 broadcast entitled,” Craftsmanship,” Virginia Woolf seems to predict the ways that contemporary political movements and subsequent social changes have impacted on readers’ ability to discern meanings in her fiction inaccessible to previous generations. She writes that “words that are unintelligible … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, Arnold Bennett, Arthur Rimbaud, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, Charles Darwin, Clive Bell, D.H. Lawrence, David Garnett, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Taylor, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.E. Moore, Henry Tonks, Herbert Spencer, Herimone Lee, Hermione Lee, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Lyndall Gordon, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Mitchel Leaska, Patricia Kramer, Roger Fry, Rupert Brooke, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Khamsi, Thackeray, Thomas Huxley, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater, Wynham Lewis
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CLARISSA: NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE
It is the prose of suspicion; an uncovering of layers of disconcerting awareness between its lines. Samuel Richardson’s ( 1689-1761 ) ambitious narrative of tragic seduction is traced through the hundreds of letters written between Clarissa Harlowe, her confidante Anna Howe, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Denis Diderot, Epistolary literary form, Francis Hayman, George Eliot, Goethe, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Homer, Honore de Balzac, Jane Austen, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Mullan, Marcel Proust, Melvyn Bragg, Samuel Richardson, Thackeray, Virgil
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