… 410. Exotic animals as symbols of social status Such a crave for exoticism was also expressed by an excessively intense enthusiasm for exotic animals (lions, elephants, monkeys, crocodiles, kangaroo, turtles and so forth) which were …
Animals | Australia | Chinoiserie | Collecting | Commerce | Exoticism | Menageries | North America
… era of religious and political disruption that had preceded. ‘Polite religion’ had supplanted the ‘zeal’, ‘fanaticism’, ‘enthusiasm’ and ‘superstition’ of the previous period (though the battle against these enemies continued). At the same …
Conviviality
[ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]
… Advertiser, April 15 and April 16 1763, signed ‘Write More‘ and ‘A Constant Correspondent‘. 11 . Jon Mee, Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford University Press, 2003), p. …
Community | Conviviality | Hilarity | Politics | Song | Toasting
… the Truth of what appeared, and to encourage [ Greatrakes ] to give this Account to the World’ ( Greatrakes 96). This enthusiasm surrounding the appearance of Valentine Greatrakes highlights the new social climate that pervaded Britain and …
Health | Irrational Crowd | Nature | Religion | Supernaturalism
… at her side. If she had hoped that her fortunes would improve in London, what she found there failed to ignite her enthusiasm. There were no paintings museums – the National Gallery would not open its doors until 1824 – and though …
Aristocracy | Emigration | French Revolution | Portrait | Travel | Women
… penetrated thro’ his Waistcoat and Shirt, and drew Blood; the sight of which, in an Instant, dispell’d the fumes of Enthusiasm, and from an Indian Prince he sunk into his original Character, that of a Journeyman Barber’. 13 . Allan, …