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French epistolary novel [ Literary & Artistic genres / Reading & Writing ]
… et l’avènement d’un nouvel ordre social. Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Letter Letter-writing Conversation Epistolary novel Richardson Montesquieu Rousseau Laclos Le roman épistolaire est l’une des … se jouent notamment le cheminement vers le réalisme bourgeois du XIX e siècle et l’avènement d’un nouvel ordre social. … Letter … Letter-writing … Conversation … Epistolary novel … Richardson … Montesquieu … Rousseau … Laclos … French …Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… country it is social pleasure that sheds the most delicious flowers which grow on the path of life’ (H.M. Williams, Letters, 1790, 140 ) . This British author, who settled in Paris in 1792, contributed greatly to the circulation of … events from the Revolution to the Restoration. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Women Salon Letters travelogue French Revolution Girondins napoleonic era National specificities sociable spaces Helen Maria Williams … first chronicle of events across the Channel dates to this trip. This first volume was followed by seven more, forming Letters from France (1790-1796), which was published in London by T. Cadell (then G. G. and J. Robinson). 1 The first …Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… qualities of the heart and mind. People > Art and Literature Keywords Samuel Richardson Writing and reading practices Letter Epistolary sociability Friendship Sentiment Heart and mind Although Samuel Richardson was a reserved, taciturn man … him to promote sociability through the creation of a society of writers and readers. For one thing, in his Familiar Letters 1 , he gave his readers practical advice on how to become a sociable people and behave as such, what company to … might enjoy the pleasures of conversation. For another thing, the interplay takes place between real and fictional letters as Richardson’s three novels are – partly in the case of Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded , and wholly in the case of …David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… ̶ he belonged to diverse clubs and societies in Scotland and London, then at Hume’s participation in the Republic of Letters, and finally at philosophy as the practice of sociability. People > Philosophy Keywords Philosophy Clubs Societies Salons Scottish Enlightenment Edinburgh London Paris Republic of Letters essay David Hume’s original position in eighteenth-century letters is linked to a paradox: he was both a marginal character (Scottish rather than English, British rather than …Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… London as well as in the country . People > Aristocracy People > Art and Literature Keywords Bluestockings Conversation Letters Parties Drums London Politics Born in 1719, Frances Evelyn Glanville was a distant relative of diarist John … to exert a form of social politics in the manner described by Elaine Chalus: 1 . Admiral’s Wife: Being the Life and Letters of The Hon. Mrs. Edward Boscawen from 1719-1761, ed. Cecil Aspinall-Oglander (London, New York, Toronto: … if you do not approve that which I have displayed in Audley Street’ (Aspinall-Oglander, I, 129). To be polite, the letter continues, she had invited his brother as well as a member of Parliament, Sir Charles Frederick, and his wife to …Pagination
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