Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… his portrait while he was in London), as well in politics. In a most striking and exemplary aspect of the changing nature of celebrity in the middle of the eighteenth century, it is his book which opened the doors of the fashionable … him the opportunity to examine the flow of blood in the arteries of her hand, and to reflect, naturally, on the social nature of man: ‘—Surely—surely man! It is not good for thee to sit alone—thou wast made for social intercourse and gentle greetings, and this improvement of our natures from it, I appeal to, as my evidence’ (73). (Wo)Man’s natural sociability is both reasserted and used by the …
Salons | Enlightenment | Sentiment | Novel | Celebrity | Satire | Slavery
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