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DISTURBING THE RHYTHM OF COMEDY
Epic deception. And arriving at the altar with a faint pulse.That was the view of Sarah Fielding, author and sister of Henry Fielding. The epic notion of the “great end” enters the comic novel as the marriage that sanctifies the culture … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pettit, Alexander Pope, Austin Dobson, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Delavier Manley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, G.M. Godden, Godden, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johann Zoffany, John Trusler, Lady Mary Chudleigh, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Matthew Wickham, Nancy Armstrong, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ros Ballaster, Sally Feldman, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Thomas Gainsborough, Voltaire, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth, Zoffany
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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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