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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Georgian Britain"”.
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Reluctant patients: health, sickness and the embodiment of plebeian masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain: evidence from working men's autobiographies
… by Dorothy and Roy Porter in their work on the Georgian middling sort and applies it to working-class men in nineteenth-century Britain. Thus it uses working men's autobiographies to explore conceptions of health, plebeian aetiology, the subjective experience of sickness, lay medicine and the …
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Myth In Reception: Insights From Stourhead Gardens
… my thesis is the reception of classical myth in Georgian Britain as exemplified by responses to the garden imagery at Stourhead, Wiltshire. Previous explanations have tended to the view that the gardens were designed to recapitulate Virgil’s Aeneid. However, the garden owner, Henry Hoare II, left …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain” examines the relationship between romance and partisan history-writing in Britain following the English Civil War and 1688 Revolution. Considering works of fiction by Delarivier Manley, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Horace Walpole, Ann …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
… male characters are deeply embedded in late-Georgian controversies over men’s status, responsibilities, and behavior, reflecting what I term the “crisis of masculinity” in the Romantic period. I argue that before Jane Austen and Lord Byron – dominant Romantic writers of the 1810s – Burney, …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… Susanna Montgomery, Countess of Eglinton; Georgianna Spencer, Countess Spencer; Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort; Elizabeth Home, Countess of Home; Elizabeth Montagu; Mary Hervey, Lady Hervey; Henrietta Fermor, Countess of Pomfret; the Hon. Charlotte Digby; the Hon. Charlotte Boyle …