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Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… of the most prolific novelists of the eighteenth century, he was certainly the one who understood best the mechanisms of celebrity, and who used his appetite for sociability to further his reputation. This entry examines the works and career … can be seen as an exploration of sociability. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Salons Enlightenment Sentiment Novel Celebrity Satire Slavery In a letter written from Paris to the actor David Garrick, Laurence Sterne wrote in 1762: ‘have … The Inter-National Invention of the Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002). From country parson to literary celebrity Laurence Sterne was first a country parson. After leaving Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1737, he entered the …
Salons | Enlightenment | Sentiment | Novel | Celebrity | Satire | Slavery
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… health, the paradox of regulation and freedom, the transformation of the self in a specific environment and the role of celebrity in the emergence of new communities. Places > Health Places > Nature Mots-clés Celebrity Fame Health Rules Spa Spa sociability is very often considered as a paradigm of an ‘open society.’ Openness for … who were known to frequent the more fashionable spas such as Pyrmont in the eighteenth century. Spa sociability and celebrity The celebrity of Bath in the ‘Age of watering-places,’ a phrase coined by R.B. Mowat in England in the …
Celebrity | Fame | Health | Rules | Spa
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Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
Celebrity | Conversation | Depression | Clubs | Fame | Gender
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Voltaire (and his social networks) [ Association ]
… but the ties with those he called friend would remain sacred throughout his life. People > Association Mots-clés Celebrity Correspondence Friendship Networks Patronage Voltaire styled himself the ‘hermit of the Alps’ 1 in much of the … author; his network of ‘fanatics,’ 7 to quote Charles Collé, were the mark of another form of sociability built around celebrity. 8 To speak of Voltaire and his rapport with sociability is to accept paradox: Candide leads us to believe … coll. ' Transversales ' , 2021), p. 133-152. In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Voltaire, Letter to D'Argental ( 1762 ).* … Celebrity … Correspondence … Friendship … Networks … Patronage … Voltaire (and his social networks) …
Celebrity | Correspondence | Friendship | Networks | Patronage
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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… sociability as it was generally understood by his contemporaries. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Catholicism Celebrity Correspondence Enmity Friendship Poetry Both in financial terms and in the scale of his cultural influence, … Homer, and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Classical Learning (London: Routledge, 1993). … Catholicism … Celebrity … Correspondence … Enmity … Friendship … Poetry … Alexander Pope …
Catholicism | Celebrity | Correspondence | Enmity | Friendship | Poetry
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… Références complémentaires Colville, Quentin (ed.), Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity (London: Thames & Hudson, 2016). Contogouris, Ersy, Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art: … young boys splashed naked in the waters in front of his villa. … Colville, Quentin (ed.), Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity (London: Thames & Hudson, 2016). Contogouris, Ersy, Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art: …
Dance | Diplomacy | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy | Travel
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… ‘had always longed to see him [Garrick] in all his great characters,’ a viewing practice that speaks to theatrical celebrity’s growing import. Burney was shaken at seeing her family’s friend transformed into a villain and moved by … like Garrick and Siddons were able to mobilize respectable domestic ideology and financial success as part of their celebrity. Iterative contact with genteel society within Drury Lane Theatre and increased media representation of the … on Drury Lane’s charity performances under Garrick’s management, see Leslie Ritchie, David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 128-136. 22 . Danielle Spratt, ‘’Genius Thus Munificently …
Audience | Coffeehouses | Fame | Rioting | Theatre
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… was the sharing of literary interests: called ‘Nine' 3 by Garrick, More also wrote poems, essays and stories, and her celebrity fed on that of the other members of the bluestocking circle. Conversely, as part of the second generation of … made her free, thanks to her recent financial independence, to set up her own social network and she used her London celebrity to create an original model of sociability that was essentially philanthropic. In so doing, she opened up new …
Bluestockings | Charity | Education | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Manners | Philanthropy | Poverty | Reformation | Religion | Slavery | Women
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