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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Women Salon Letters travelogue French Revolution Girondins napoleonic era National specificities sociable spaces Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) showed a sustained appetence for … and particularly British travellers to France. Williams, who soon shed any illusions she might have had with regard to Napoleon Bonaparte’s policy , 12   , opened a cosmopolitan salon on the Quai Malaquais that could accommodate up to 70 … Williams stopped writing political works during the Empire, a period of strong censorship. It was not until the fall of Napoleon that British visitors were able to return to France. Although Stone’s bankruptcy in 1815 reduced Williams’s …

William Wordsworth, the Worldly Recluse [ Art and Literature ]

… community, and nation-building. People > Art and Literature Keywords Solitude French Revolution Domesticity Politics Napoleon Poet Laureate In a letter of 27 October 1818 to Richard Woodhouse, John Keats famously distanced himself from … supporter of the French Revolution in the early 1790s, Wordsworth now viewed the military and political threat that Napoleon posed to Great Britain and the rest of Europe with increasing alarm. In 1803, Wordsworth started drilling with … a treaty that would curb France’s military power and protect the independence of Spain and Portugal, invaded by Napoleon’s armies the previous year. His deep interest in international politics and his defence of the sovereignty of …

Arab discovery of European sociability [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… East-West Paris The encounter between East and West from the beginning of the nineteenth century onwards, starting with Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt (1798-1801), is considered as one of the historical events that fostered the cultural Arab … everybody, including lovers and eminent members of society would meet to eat, drink and make merry. 5 Actually, with Napoleon’s expedition, the Egyptians had already witnessed the first theatrical performances in Cairo held in French, … his supervision, 11 as he had learned French under the guidance of Edmé-Fran ç ois Jomard (1777-1862), a veteran of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, and the famous orientalist Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838). al-Tahtāwī was a strong …

Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]

… notions of national difference in sensibilities and modes of expression emerging during and in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. 12 The ‘new concept of gentlemanly masculinity’ is analysed in Michèle Cohen, '‘Manners’ Make the Man: … into their private drawing rooms to be replaced by the convivial fellowship of the naval officers returned home from the Napoleonic wars: men who represent a new and worthier merit-based social order ( Cossic-Péricarpin, 545) . 13 Pride and …

Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]

… herself remains in the background and rarely gives a voice to her emotions, she appears as an astute chronicler, who met Napoleon, was overwhelmed by Germaine de Staël, spoke to the Duke of Wellington, befriended William Makepeace Thackeray, …

Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]

… boots, or shoes tied with laces. The ostentation of buckles had little place in the more austere male fashions of the Napoleonic Wars or the Regency. 9 Bernard and Therle Hughes, Georgian Shoe Buckles (London: GLC, 1972), p. 6. From this …