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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 …
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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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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) …
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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 …
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