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Merchant communities in European ports [ Commerce / Mobility / Trade ]
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Cabinets of curiosities [ Nature / Sports & Leisure ]
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… society along Western lines. 2 . When the shaykh Hasan al-‘Attār (1766-1835), an educated and far-sighted cleric, presented this manuscript written in Arabic to Muhammad ‘Alī, he appreciated it to the point of ordering that it be … his young age, he immediately grasped the didactic value of these performances which he called al‘āb (games) that represented reality through jest and from which people learned amazing lessons ʻso that the French say that it [the … (School for Translators) and later Madrasat al-Alsun (School of Languages). 10 Here a good number of works representative of European thought were translated, either by him or under his supervision, 11 as he had learned French …
Dress | Europe | France | Theatre | Travel
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Flora Tristan [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
Cosmopolitanism | Discrimination | France | Literature | Travel | Women
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Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… . Mary Berry, A Comparative View of Social Life in England and France, from the Restoration of Charles the Second to the Present Time, to Which Are Now First Added The Lives of the Marquise Du Deffand and of Rachael Lady Russell - Fashionable … over decades: Baillie died in 1851, one year prior to Berry, but having been an acknowledged author, she remained more present in the public awareness, whereas Mary Berry, her circles, and her writing lost much of their visibility. These …
Bluestockings | Correspondence | Literature | Travel | Theatre
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… Emma Hamilton, see Ersy Contogouris, Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art: Agency, Performance, and Representation (London: Routledge, 2018). 2 . ‘Un paradis habité par des diables.’ Maximilien Misson, Nouveau voyage … walls at nearby archaeological digs. Between each pose, she covered herself with shawls, then uncovered herself and presented herself as if a statue. She executed sometimes more than two hundred such posesJohn B.S. Morritt of Rokeby, The … a far cry from the scintillating sociable activity of which she had once been the centre. 14 . The child, Horatia, was presented as being the daughter of a Mr. Thompson, a sailor under Nelson’s command, and his wife, who had entrusted her …
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Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… only appear to gird the human mind round with imaginary circles […]. This spirit of inquiry is the characteristic of the present century, from which the succeeding will, I am persuaded, receive a great accumulation of knowledge; and doubtless … social and cultural practices. Her travelogue opens on the Fête de la Fédération held on 14 July 1790, a spectacular representation of revolutionary sociability designed to celebrate the French people’s social regeneration. Her narrative is … new inflexions in travel writing standards. Katherine Turner has shown how empirical evidence, a more ‘moderate, representative narrator’ and insistence on vice and virtue became the new norms for travel writing so as ‘to claim a …
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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
Aristocracy | Emigration | French Revolution | Portrait | Travel | Women
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