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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… It should then not be surprising that some men, blinded by that sociable world of leisure and appearances end up in a state of complete destitution. Consequently, the threat of those masculine ills should be learnt from their early youth, … society was one of the main concerns of the headmaster in his school at Cheam. In order to do so, he established a real ‘state’ (Gilpin, Memoirs , 127) or ‘miniature of the world’ (128) in which the boys not only attended classes but … painter Mary Hartley in which his friend tries to understand, by rephrasing and quoting some of the clergyman’s previous statements, William Gilpin’s conception of sociability in the afterlife (Warner 158-163): I have been looking back at …
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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
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Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… Image Anon., Valentine Greatrakes b. 1794. Résumé Commentators have at times overstated the reach and impact of scientific rationalism at the close of the seventeenth century , and in doing so have been … It is thus no wonder that Greatrakes’s actions were received enthusiastically by many prominent figures in church and state, who were eager to seek reconciliation and union in the early years of the Restoration. 14 ‘ [ S ] ickening … The sociologist Gustave Lebon, the leading scholar of the psychology of crowds, highlighted in 1895 the irrational states that pervade the actions of a manipulable crowd and alter the rational capacities of individuals. 15 The crowd, …
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