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Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… [The Netherfield Ball], Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (London: George Allen, 1894), p. 113. Abstract As a novelist of manners and an acute observer of human interactions, Jane Austen analysed the implications of late Georgian and Regency … to be insufficient. For Austen’s central protagonists, true sociability is expressed not in the polite language and manners of earlier models of social intercourse but demonstrated through meaningful acts of consideration towards others. … whom Mr Knightley determines ‘can be amiable only in French, not in English’: ‘He may be very “aimable,” have very good manners, and be very agreeable; but he can have no English delicacy towards the feelings of other people’ (Austen, Emma …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… of ‘private morals’ that was charged with ‘[o]bserving, feeling and portraying’ in order to provide insight into ‘human manners, characters, feelings and passions’. 5 The English novelist’s work took up one of the major themes explored in … the model of sociability that he stigmatised: we must also say that her Work […] has eminently the merit of portraying manners and customs; that it is full of fine and profound observations; that in general, the characters and feelings are … The novel’s epigraph (which was drawn from La Nouvelle Héloïse ( Julie, or the New Heloise )) – ‘I have observed the Manners of the Times, and have wrote these Letters’ 11 – and the juxtaposition of the publisher’s notice and the …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… me to town. I have seen some old friends, who constantly resided in this virtuous metropolis, but they are so changed in manners and disposition, that we hardly know or care for one another—In our journey from Bath, my sister Tabby provoked …
Fiction | Towns | Correspondence
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Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
Dissent | Fiction | Friendship | Tories | Satire | Whigs
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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Spas [ Health ]
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
Antagonism | Conflict | Fiction | Parody | Rivalry
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