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Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

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Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

What were the sources of pleasure during the eighteenth century? The range of pleasurable activities from the bawdy and perverse to the refined are brought together in this collection of essays, which is the first to look at both the philosophy and practice of the pleasure-seeking Georgians. Experts on the arts of pleasure will luxuriate over Italian opera, gastronomic delights, the pleasures of Gothic terror, seduction, and the revellers of the bizarre London clubs.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349249629

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9781349249626

The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 1

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

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The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 1

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

In 1858, Rosina Bulwer Lytton was incarcerated in a lunatic asylum by her husband, the eminent Victorian politician and novelist, Edward Bulwer Lytton. After the disintegration of their marriage, Rosina wrote letters to prominent figures in which she revealed details about Edward's mistresses and illegitimate children.

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319

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Taylor & Francis

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1040249701

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9781040249703

Gothic Immortals (Routledge Revivals)

The Fiction of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

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The Fiction of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

First published in 1990, this book represents the first full-length study of into the group of novels designated ‘Rosicrucian’ and traces the emergence of this distinct fictional genre, revealing a continuous occult tradition running through seemingly diverse literary texts. Taking the Enlightenment as a starting point, the author shows how the physician’s secular appropriation of the idea of eternal life, through the study of longevity and physical decay, attracted writers like William Godwin. It focuses on the bodily immortality of the Rosicrucian hero and investigates the novels of five major writers — Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Maturin, and Bulwer-Lytton.

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328

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Routledge

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1317206401

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9781317206408

Dangerous bodies

Historicising the gothic corporeal

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

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Dangerous bodies

Historicising the gothic corporeal

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench. The book provides original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film texts including The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein, Dracula and Nosferatu. This collection of fictionalised dangerous bodies is traced back to the effects of the English Reformation, Spanish Inquisition, French Revolution, Caribbean slavery, Victorian medical malpractice, European anti-Semitism and finally warfare, ranging from the Crimean up to the Vietnam War. The endangered or dangerous body lies at the centre of the clash between victim and persecutor and has generated tales of terror and narratives of horror, which function to either salve, purge or dangerously perpetuate such oppositions. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to academics and students of Gothic studies, gender and film studies and especially to readers interested in the relationship between history and literature.

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285

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Manchester University Press

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1784996130

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9781784996130

British Poets and Secret Societies (Routledge Revivals)

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

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British Poets and Secret Societies (Routledge Revivals)

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

A surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets. One of the best known examples is Christopher Smart’s membership of the Freemasons, and the resulting influence of Masonic doctrines on A Song to David. However, many other poets have belonged to, or been influenced by not only the Freemasons, but the Rosicrucians, Gormogons and Hell-Fire Clubs. First published in 1986, this study concentrates on five major examples: Smart, Burns, William Blake, William Butler Yeats and Rudyard Kipling, as well as a number of other poets. Marie Roberts questions why so many poets have been powerfully attracted to the secret societies, and considers the effectiveness of poetry as a medium for conveying secret emblems and ritual. She shows how some poets believed that poetry would prove a hidden symbolic language in which to reveal great truths. The beliefs of these poets are as diverse as their practice, and this book sheds fascinating light on several major writers.

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213

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Routledge

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1317634896

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9781317634898

The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 2

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

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Taylor & Francis

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1040245560

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9781040245569

The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 3

By: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

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104024811X

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9781040248119

Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur

By: Anna Marie Roos

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Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur

By: Anna Marie Roos

Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Sir Isaac Newton's protégé, astronomer, mathematician, freemason, art connoisseur, Voltaire's friend and Hogarth's patron, his was an intellectually vibrant world. Folkes was possibly the best-connected natural philosopher and antiquary of his age, an epitome of Enlightenment sociability, and yet he was a surprisingly neglected figure, the long shadow of Newton eclipsing his brilliant disciple. A complex figure, Folkes edited Newton's posthumous works in biblical chronology, yet was a religious skeptic and one of the first members of the gentry to marry an actress. His interests were multidisciplinary, from his authorship of the first complete history of the English coinage, to works concerning ancient architecture, statistical probability, and astronomy. Rich archival material, including Folkes's travel diary, correspondence, and his library and art collections permit reconstruction through Folkes's eyes of what it was like to be a collector and patron, a Masonic freethinker, and antiquarian and virtuoso in the days before 'science' became sub-specialised. Folkes's virtuosic sensibility and possible role in the unification of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society tells against the historiographical assumption that this was the age in which the 'two cultures' of the humanities and sciences split apart, never to be reunited. In Georgian England, antiquarianism and 'science' were considered largely part of the same endeavour.

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Oxford University Press

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0192565656

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9780192565655

Book's by Marie Mulvey-Roberts

Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century

Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century

The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 1

The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 1

Gothic Immortals (Routledge Revivals)

Gothic Immortals (Routledge Revivals)

Dangerous bodies

Dangerous bodies

British Poets and Secret Societies (Routledge Revivals)

British Poets and Secret Societies (Routledge Revivals)

The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 2

The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 2

The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 3

The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 3

Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

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