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Tag Archives: Thomas Rowlandson
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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The CAMEL, The SPHINX and Diverse HinjinXXX
Euphemisms tend to lose their protective magic at a fairly rapid rate. Like Sisyphus, the moralists can never seem to to carry, drag or otherwise schlep that ball to the top of the mountain and give it back to its … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Cockburn, Alfred C. Kinsey, Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Havelock Ellis, James Franco, James Panero, James Thompson, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jennifer Peto, Jerry Aronson, John J. Ray, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, M.L. Ernst, Mae West, Norman A. Rubin, Peter Fryer, Theodor Adorno, Theodore Schroeder, Thomas Martin, Thomas Rowlandson, W. Seagle
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REGAL MORTGAGE CRISIS: Princely Bling
This is the era of the Napoleonic Wars, of the Battle of Waterloo and the Battle of Trafalgar, and the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Nelson. The waltz was a scandalous new dance craze, and stylish women cropped their hair … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiral Nelson, Alan Bennett, Byron, Charles James Fox, Dorothy Marshall, Duke of Wellington, Francis Willis, George Cruikshank, Gillray, Henry Holland, Humphrey Repton, James Gillray, Jeremy Black, John Nash, King George III, Lord Byron, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Prince George, Prince Regent George IV, Regency Crisis, Robert Cruikshank, S.P. Cockerell, Sir Walter Scott, Stephen Schieff, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth, William Porden
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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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PREOCCUPIED WITH GOODNESS: Almost Forgivable Appetites For Life
Tom Jones was perpetually in delicate situations. As Henry Fielding remarked in one of his digressions,” It is not enough that your designs, nay, that your actions are intrinsically good; you must take care that they appear so.” Tom was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pettit, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Brian McCrea, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Daniel Defoe, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Ian Hislop, James Gillray, John Collet, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Laurence Stern, Laurence Sterne, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Oliver Goldsmith, Rev. John Trusler, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Sally Feldman, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Simon Varey, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gray, Thomas R. Cleary, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth
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LURKING DISASTERS THAT AWAIT ALL GOOD MEN
Peter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the vatican what gold’s for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Rawson, Cervantes, Claude Rawson, Francisco Goya, G.M. Godden, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, James Gillray, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Mary Vidal, Oliver Goldsmith, Pablo Picasso, Paul Baines, Richard Dorment, Robert Walpole, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Thomas Gray, Thomas Rowlandson, Titian Venus of Urbino, William Makepiece Thackeray, William Shenstone
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HENRY FIELDING :LONDON CALLING & POETIC FAITH
London calling to the faraway towns Now war is declared – and battle come down London calling to the underworld Come out of the cupboard,you boys and girls London calling, now don’t look to us Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Alexander Welsh, Aphra Behn, Brian McCrea, Claude Rawson, David Garrick, G.M. Godden, Gay, George Bernard Shaw, Horace Walpole, John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Larry Laban, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Ralph Allen Bath, Robert Walpole, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Simon Varey, Thomas R. Cleary, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray
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JANE AUSTEN “UNAWARES”: Spontaneous Dislike As A Virtue
“Austen’s comedy participates in the Western tradition of komos –that is, comedy as a revelry in mischief. Liberated from what Charles Lamb calls “the burden of a perpetual moral questioning,” Austen’s mischievous humor specializes in truths uncongenial to the sentimentally-based … Continue reading
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Tagged Abi Ryan, Ben H. Winters, Charles Lamb, Claudia Jeanette Lockhart, Claudia L. Johnson, D.C. Measham, D.W. Harding, David M. Buss, David Miall, David Oately, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Jenkins, Emma Hamilton, Emma Thompson, G.W. Lewes, George Lewes, Heather Jackson, Horace Walpole, Ian Watt, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Kate Beaton, Kate Gordon, Kathryn Duncan, Keith Oately, Lady Emma Hamilton, Laura Viera Rigler, Liz Wong, Mary Brunton, Michael J. Stasio, Michael Kellner, Monica Lawlor, Monteiro Belisa, P.D. James, Pamela Mooman, R.W. Chapman, Richard W. Noland, Robert B. Cialdini, Robert P. Irvine, Sarah Siddons, Seth Grahame-Smith, Sigmund Freud, Sonny Liew, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Rowlandson, Vera Nazarian, Virginia Woolf, Wayne Josephson
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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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