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Laughter [ Communication ]
… , the Sneer, The Grin , the Horse-Laugh in the rear 3 3 . William Brownsword, Laugh Upon Laugh, or Laughter Ridicul’d (London, 1740), p. 20. Laughter involved a complex interplay of body and mind. It was a physical action – not quite a … and surely every way of talking that is practised cannot be esteemed’. 4 4 . James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson (London: Henry Baldwin, 1791), vol. 1, p. 244. For those eager to theorise and encourage polite sociability, laughter was … was a fêted social skill. 6 . Georg Friedrich Meier, The Merry Philosopher; or, Thoughts on Jesting, trans. Anon. (London: J. Newbery and W. Nicoll, 1764), p. 14. In eighteenth-century intellectual circles, however, good humour and …
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3227, 1711. Image John Stuart, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D14964, 1710. Résumé Richard Steele was one of the most important and controversial figures of early … Kneller, including the one of Steele here. Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3227, 1711. In one of his first publications, The Christian Hero (1701), he articulated his conviction that …
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… at times criticizing his own party for its practices ( Correspondence, 207-8). At that time, following his calling in London, he made the acquaintance of several freethinkers (a group of writers he was, to his own dismay, later often … Characteristicks . 7 . Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, trans. revised by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (London: Bloomsburg, 2013), p. 23. In this most eclectic of philosophical works, sociability is not just part and parcel … Références complémentaires Axelsson, Karl, Political Aesthetics: Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Barton, Roman Alexander,'Lord Shaftesbury and the Ancient Traditions of Sympathy', in …
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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… praise of the Duke of Marlborough entitled The Campaign (1704) and the play Cato (1713), which was a surprise hit on the London stage and remained one of the most popular plays of the eighteenth century. He served as a Member of Parliament … and conversation of a few select companions’, he declared ( The Spectator , n° 15, 17 March 1711). 5 . James Boswell, London Journal 1762-1763, ed. Gordon Turnbull (London: Penguin, 2010), p. 22, 23; Lawrence Klein, ‘Addisonian Afterlives: Joseph Addison in Eighteenth-Century Culture’, …
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