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Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… discourse of those coxcombs in livery, when they make their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London, in hopes of getting into service, where they can live luxuriously and wear fine clothes, without being … expectation, become thieves and sharpers; and London being an immense wilderness, in which there is neither watch nor ward of any signification, nor any order or police, affords them lurking-places as well as prey. There are many causes …
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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Humphry Clinker (1771) [ Places ]
… which is relieved every year; but it is incapable of sustaining a siege carried on according to the modern operations of war.—The castle hill, which extends from the outward gate to the upper end of the high street, is used as a public walk for the citizens, and commands a prospect, …
Fiction | Scotland | Correspondence | Architecture
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Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… London on numerous occasions, attending the theatre and notably seeing her novels through the press. Her brother Edward Austen-Knight’s adoption by wealthy cousins and eventual inheritance of their estates enabled his sister to move … and Dorothy McMillan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), I.i.5. 7 . Gillian Russell, ‘Sociability’, in Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University … language and manners of earlier models of social intercourse but demonstrated through meaningful acts of consideration towards others. Elinor’s patient attentions to the vulgar but kindly Mrs Jennings in Sense and Sensibility , Captain …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
Antagonism | Conflict | Fiction | Parody | Rivalry
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