Kit-Cat Club
[ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… by elements loosely taken from English history, romance or folk tradition – such as long Jacobean galleries, medieval gothic ruins or old castellar features added to baroque architecture (cf. Kimbolton Castle) or garden design (cf. Stowe …
… of Essays of Physiognomy (1789-98), and Gottfried August Bürger’s Leonore (1796), which was part of the fad for Gothic literature . 9 Through the Johnson circle Blake would have met Mary Wollstonecraft, Erasmus Darwin and Henry …
Rake
[ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… morphed into new avatars. The influence of the eighteenth-century rake cannot be denied in later archetypes such as the Gothic villain, the Byronic anti-hero and even the vampire. 10 In recent years, the rake has enjoyed a renewed interest, …