… siècle, Christian Melchior-Bonnet (ed.) (Paris: Mercure de France, 1965), p. 174-178. Laclos’s interest in English culture was primarily literary. In 1784, two years after the succès de scandale of Les liaisons dangereuses , he …
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… 10 8 . See David A. Kronick, ‘Notes on the Printing History of the early Philosophical Transactions’, Libraries and Culture (25:2, 1990), p. 243-268. 9 . See Douglas McKie, ‘The arrest and imprisonment of Henry Oldenburg’, Notes and …
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… the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales (first printed in 1782): We travel for various purposes —to explore the culture of soils — to view the curiosities of art — to survey the beauties of nature — and to learn the manners of men; …
… was also a prisoner of war need not completely hamper her social life. 14 What impact the parole towns had on British culture in the eighteenth century is difficult to quantify as there has been only a few academics who have researched the …
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Mary Delany
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… distinction of a limited and extensive 'court society'. 15 . The process was well demonstrated by Ann C. Dean, 'Court Culture and Political News in London's Eighteenth-Century Newspapers', ELH: Journal of English Literary History (vol. 73, …