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Tag Archives: Victorian England
vice is the spice of life
Prim and proper? Hardly. But, it was jolly old England. Refreshingly, they were not politically correct. The PC Nazi/Yuppie was in an idyllic, and mythological future. It really began with William Hogarth. Hogarth was the first of these new artists … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexander Pope, charles churchill, Charles Dickens, england 1784 election, George Cruickshank, George Romney, henry william bunbury, Honore Daumier, hoppner, Isaac Cruickshank, James Gillray, Jane Austen, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Joshua Reynolds, pierce egan, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, Victorian England, william dent, William Hogarth, william wells
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LOOK AT NOTHING BUT SEE EVERYTHING
Andre Gide, a minor novelist, once called the “Comedie Humaine” of Balzac a great fresco crumbling to pieces a little more all the time. Given that he is not entirely wrong, it could be extrapolated today that the novel as … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Andre Gide, Balzac, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Dickens, George Orwell, Hablot K. Browne, Honore de Balzac, John Forster, Oliver Twist, Phiz, Robert William Buss, Shakespeare, Victorian England, Victorian literature, William James, William Shakespeare
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