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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]

… practices, fashioned links with his readers and created a society of writers and readers based on esteem, admiration and friendship, thereby promoting a special kind of sociability, relying on the qualities of the heart and mind. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Samuel Richardson Writing and reading practices Letter Epistolary sociability Friendship Sentiment Heart and mind Although Samuel Richardson was a reserved, taciturn man who … , and wholly in the case of Clarissa; Or, the History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison – epistolary novels. 2   A network of sociability is fashioned by the very acts of sending and receiving letters, …

Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]

… plays as well as historiographical works. She met a large number of literati, artists, and politicians and cultivated friendships with Walpole, the sculptor Anne Damer, and the playwright Joanna Baillie, documented through letters, which provided her with support. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Travel Literature Salon Horace Walpole Epistolary friendship Mary Berry (1763-1852) headed and participated in sociable circles in London and on the continent, … (Schmid, 2013, 40-43, 65-66; Culley). Their interaction and mutual support are documented through journal entries and epistolary exchanges, demonstrating that the two women read one another's manuscripts and supported each other's careers …

Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]

… salon on rue Saint-Dominique.   Her correspondence with Horace Walpole gives us a window into how Franco-British epistolary relationships helped shape new spaces of sociability, both real and imagined. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Friendship Correspondence Epistolary Letter Salon Horace Walpole Lespinasse Geoffrin Madame du Deffand, née Marie de Vichy-Champrond, was born in …

Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]

… evolution of eighteenth-century theatrical creation. People > Art and Literature Practices > Reading & Writing Mots-clés Epistolary friendship Theatre National specificities France and Great-Britain Anglomania Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, née Laboras de … French readers had for English literature, and the strong ties that united the two countries. The vibrant network of epistolary sociability which thrived during the Enlightenment would form the underpinnings of her enduring friendships …

Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]

… figure in the formation and articulation of sociable ideals. However, while he prided himself on his capacity for friendship, his own relationship to the social expectations of his time was far from comfortable. A disabled Catholic, … polite sociability as it was generally understood by his contemporaries. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés poetry Friendship Scriblerus Club Correspondence Literary celebrity Enmity Both in financial terms and in the scale of his … Club is a case in point. The club itself met in person only for a few months in 1714. It survived thereafter through epistolary correspondence and joint projects such as the Swift-Pope Miscellanies of 1728-32. However, it is hard to …

John Keats [ Art and Literature ]

… his lifetime, his close circle of friends in England strove to defend his genius and preserve his memory for posterity. Friendship was always central to Keats’s life; his poetry and letters attest to a vitally social existence, and to the … thinker. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés British romanticism poetry Leigh Hunt Hunt circle literary correspondence Friendship ‘The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn,’ writes John Keats (1795-1821), echoing his presiding genius, William … ruminate and digress, to test out ideas as he engages in an ongoing discussion which, pivoting on the creative axis of epistolary sociability, blossoms into broader reflections on the democratizing potential of friendly dialogue: 6 . As …