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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… Image Joseph Constantine Stadler, 'Mr Richardson ... reading to his Friends', © National Portrait gallery, NPG D5810, 1804. Image Thomas Cook, Daniel Dodd, ‘A Father Reading to His Family by Candlelight’, British Museum, 1875,0109.193, 1783. Abstract In the eighteenth-century, reading was often regarded as a collective activity of social significance. In many ways, the diversity of reading …
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On Horse races (1724) [ Practices ]
… seats, and palaces of the nobility and gentry. With useful observations upon the whole. Particularly fitted for the reading of such as desire to travel over the island. By a Gentleman. London: Printed, and sold by G. Strahan, in …
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… sphere. This model proved so hegemonic that it became difficult for later female journalists to discard it. Practices > Reading & Writing Practices > Communication Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords … power were improving fast. The Spectator for instance invited female readers to devote a daily quarter of an hour to reading the paper, claiming that it would later conveniently ‘furnish tea table talk.’ 1 1 . The Spectator n° 4, ed D. F. … vol. 1, p. 21. The phrase itself shows the intimate relationship the Spectator ’s authors wished to establish between reading such ephemeral prints and shaping people’s social behaviours. Reading periodicals was conceived as an essentially …
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… was known for its severity, and memories of Christ’s Hospital would feed his adult nightmares and poetry, but intense reading and social enjoyment also characterized his school days. There he met Charles Lamb whose recollections pictured … mix of Bacchanalian festivities - attending wine parties, flirting with women and prostitutes, and raising debts – reading, swimming and writing poetry. He befriended the Evans family and became infatuated with Mary, the sister of his … more disgusting Pride – true Benevolence is a rare Quality among us. Sensibility indeed we have to spare – what novel-reading Lady does not over flow with it to the great annoyance of her Friends and Family – Her own sorrows like the …
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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… with an engraving showing the music kiosk in the trees (audio recording available under Deconinck-Brossard in ’Further Reading’ section below). The statue of Handel by Roubiliac (1738, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum) was in full view … researchers as studies in spatiality developed in connection with the themes of visuality and sociability (see ‘Further Reading’). Share Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin Partager sur Twitter Partager par Email Imprimer l'article … Century [online], ISSN 2803-2845, Accessed on 05/29/2024, URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/vauxhall.html Further Reading De Bolla, Peter , ‘The Visibility of Visuality: Vauxhall Gardens and the Siting of the Viewer’, in Stephen …
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Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… one another’. By contrast, he noted the difficulties he had conversing with her sister for she ‘not having been used to reading her knowledge is confined within the compass of a very few things, that it is very difficult to maintain a … Century [online], ISSN 2803-2845, Accessed on 05/29/2024, URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/solitude.html Further Reading Alberti, Fay Bound, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). … (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016). Mattison, Andrew, Solitude and Speechlessness: Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019). Shapin, Steven, ‘’The Mind Is Its Own Place’: Science …
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Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… to the gatherings and curtailed visits. He and Evelyn, each suspecting death was near, consoled each other with talk of reading and philosophy. In his last surviving letter to Pepys, on 20 January 1703, Evelyn wished his friend ‘the Old … [online], ISSN 2803-2845, Accessed on 05/29/2024, URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/samuel-pepys.html Further Reading Archer, Ian W., ‘Social Networks in Restoration London: The Evidence from Samuel Pepys’s Diary’, in Alexandra … Knighton, C.S ., Pepys and the Navy (Thrupp: Sutton, 2003) Loveman, Kate, Samuel Pepys and his Books: Reading, Newsgathering and Sociability, 1660-1703 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology …
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Social Network Analysis [ Social interaction ]
… interlocutors, or where women are thanked for financial assistance to the sender. 10 Bourke’s inclusion of close reading techniques alongside metadata analysis makes it possible for him to argue that women were in fact far more … ISSN 2803-2845, Accessed on 05/30/2024, URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/social-network-analysis.html Further Reading Data Visualization Resources: Coble, Zach, ‘Research Guides: Digital Humanities: Visualization’, accessed … Project . 1st ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009175548 Parry, Kyle, ‘Reading for Enactment: A Performative Approach to Digital Scholarship and Data Visualization’, in Matthew K. Gold and …
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Sterne's ghost at the Hôtel d'Angleterre (1862) [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… memory, and some day or other makes its appearance in your manuscript. Why, in your last Roundabout rubbish you mention reading your first novel on the day when King George IV. was crowned. I remember him in his cradle at St. James's, a … out of the other world, you don't mean,” I said, “to ask me a serious opinion of Mr. Jones? His books may be very good reading for maid-servants and school-boys, but you don't ask ME to read them? As a scholar yourself you must know that—” … without elegance or sensibility! The dog had spirits, certainly. I remember my Lord Bathurst praising them: but as for reading his books—ma foi, I would as lief go and dive for tripe in a cellar. The man's vulgarity stifles me. He wafts me …
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