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English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]

… second half of the eighteenth century, is rather transgressive in its approach: the novel’s ambition to flout romance conventions and subvert ‘romantic’ clichés contributed to shaping the theory and practice of those considered as the … 8  the ‘generic skeleton of the novel’ 9  – in Bakhtinian terms – needs to be outlined: defining features, rules and conventions, narrative norms and techniques – all prone to debate and susceptible to undergo changes in the course of the …

Street sociability [ Cities ]

… that eighteenth-century streets were performative spaces in which every address had its meaning, and every encounter its conventions, and where social mixing was at its most jumbled. Finally, in the work of Michel de Certeau and his …

Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]

… the most senior person present, and the carcass of the slayed deer was dissected and carted away following strict social conventions.  For the low-status fox, whilst hunted on foot and with traps and snares, such flattery was unknown, but as …

Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings and Emotions ]

Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]

… if the local landowner, or a visiting one like Mr Darcy, chose to attend (Russel 184). Despite being governed by strict conventions, dancing was an erotically charged form of embodied sociability. For both sexes the ball represented the …

Parole towns in Britain [ Cities ]

… a period of transition before the eventual establishment of greater protections in the Hague (1899 & 1907) and Geneva Conventions (1949).  14 . TNA ADM 105/61 prisoner of war miscellaneous papers. Share Partager sur Facebook Partager sur …