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Hunting scene in Joseph Andrews (1742) [ Practices ]
… he said was killed fairly. The hare was caught within a yard or two of Adams, who lay asleep at some distance from the lovers; and the hounds, in devouring it, and pulling it backwards and forwards, had drawn it so close to him, that some … call it, come in, when Adams set out, as we have before mentioned. This gentleman was generally said to be a great lover of humour; but, not to mince the matter, especially as we are upon this subject, he was a great hunter of men; …
Hunting | Fiction
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Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… gossip (Austen, Emma , II.vi.215). 8 Austen’s marriage plots pivot around episodes of sociability for which romantic love is the energising force. The arrival into the community of ‘a single man in possession of a good fortune’ signals … or the Crawfords, who excel in the rhetoric and performance of polite sociability, deceive not only their potential lovers but the whole neighbourhood. 10 6 . Emma, ed. Richard Cronin and Dorothy McMillan (Cambridge: Cambridge University … through her characters of the expanding participation of new classes into provincial sociability. Darcy comes to love Elizabeth’s aunt and uncle Mr Gardiner, who ‘lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses’; 13 Emma learns …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
Correspondence | Emotions | Fiction | Friendship
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… novels’ (Laclos 440). Abbé Prévost’s 1751 translation of the novel had attempted to adapt the language and behaviour of Lovelace, the prototype libertine seducer, to the French spirit of finesse . 8 Laclos went a step further by making …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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