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Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… in all the fashionable social circles, meeting the earl of Chesterfield or Lord Lyttelton, and being presented at Court. Both men of letters, Lyttelton had been a friend of Pope and of Fielding, while Chesterfield knew writers …
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Aphra Behn [ Art and Literature ]
… , critique du colonialisme Outre les productions théâtrales, le plus grand succès littéraire d’Aphra Behn est bien le court roman Oroonoko ou l’esclave royal (1688), qui sera traduit et publié en France en 1779, 7 dans lequel elle dénonce …
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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… Republic of Letters While Hume’s short autobiography testifies to the lack of success of his works, it reveals how Hume courted celebrity in the Republic of Letters . He lamented the public’s absence of engagement with his works, giving …
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Germaine de Staël [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… 13 . Lettre à Juliette Récamier, 27 février 1816, B. Constant, Correspondance générale. Tome X (1816-1818), ed. Cecil Courtney, Paul Rowe, Adrianne Tooke & Dennis Wood (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. 43-45. ‘On est tous les jours invité à …
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… Milton (1811) and Jerusalem (1820). Back in London, he lived at 17 South Moulton Street and from 1821 at 3 Fountain Court. Support in form of steady advance payments from 1799 onwards came from another source, Thomas Butts (1757-1845), a …
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