William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… from a Cosmopolitan Viewpoint’, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 44. 3 . William Gilpin, William Writes to William: The Correspondence of William Gilpin (1724-1804) and … to his father initially resists temptation, to his father’s delight, and assures him that he can resist the collective pressure of a group of men, he eventually yields to temptation, but it leads him to his death since he is killed when … on nice clothes (94-97). The social game also leads to duels, a condemnable practice in William Gilpin’s words, as he expresses in two letters of the manual (20, 70), and in many other writings. 14 It should then not be surprising that …
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