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Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… most controversial literary men of his age, and a leading figure of intellectual and conversational life in London. He loved the activities of intelligent society, and was instrumental in forming clubs for the opportunities to engage in … ‘Now, (said Garrick,) he is thinking which side he shall take.‘‘ ‘In fact, Boswell goes on, The truth [...] is, that he loved to display his ingenuity in argument; and therefore would sometimes in conversation maintain opinions which he was … most controversial literary men of his age, and a leading figure of intellectual and conversational life in London. He loved the activities of intelligent society, and was instrumental in forming clubs for the opportunities to engage in …
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Celebrity [ Publicity ]
… Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (New York: Farar, Straus & Giroux, 2020). 18 . Henry Abelove, The Evangelist of Desire: John Wesley and the Methodists (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990); Robert E. … Across the Channel, 1750–1850 (Wilmington: University of Delaware Press, 2021). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Of The Love of Fame (1734) … Celebrity was a form of sociability as well as a form of publicity that took its modern form over …
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… which was renewed with the fashioning of the romantic self. Hannah More provides a striking example of a woman who had a love-hate relationship with Bath, where she returned again and again, attracted and repulsed by the multiple encounters, …
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