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The terrain of "Eighteenth Century Worlds" is the long 18th century (1660 to 1830), its literature, music and art, society and culture. The list is an informal seminar, a "locus amoenus" in cyberspace.
Current Picture: Hubert Robert (1733-1808), Hermit in a Garden (1790s)
Current reading: Choderlos de LaClos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Previtt-Algrant's Madame de Pompadour; Evelyn Lever's Marie Antoinette
Upcoming choices: Goldsmith's writings, Jenny Uglow's Hogarth: A Life and a World; Duncan Wu, Wililam Hazlitt; Munro Price, The Road from Versailles, Gina Luria Walker: Mary Hays, the Growth of a Woman's Mind; Iris Origo's Life of Leopardi or other work on romantic/Italian authors; Lamb's writings or a biography of him and/or Mary, his sister
Summer: Francine du Plessix-Grey, At Home with the Marquis de Sade; Therese Philosophe; Radcliffe, Mysteries of Udolpho (?)
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Dark Tom Jones, 1997
Ah. Maybe I should just declare Uglow on Hogarth next! Thank you for telling me that she goes into this. Ellen [Non-text portions of this message have been
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 4:34 pm
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Ellen Moody
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Re: Dark Tom Jones, 1997
As you know, Ellen, I'm not particularly expert in matters 18C, so it came as news to me that Fielding and Hogarth were friends and also shared a point of view
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 4:15 pm
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Dark Tom Jones, 1997
I'm into the second half of this long film and would like to suggest it's wrongly ignored. I think it's better than Richardson's. Richardson's is discussed as
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 3:13 pm
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Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 12:44 pm
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On queries
As listowner, I welcome queries. I am one of those who is not good at cyberspace (really), and not good at finding things -- even when simple. I also welcome
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 12:26 pm
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