Tag Archives: Victorian England

vice is the spice of life

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Dave

Prim and proper? Hardly. But, it was jolly old England. Refreshingly, they were not politically correct. The PC Nazi/Yuppie was in an idyllic, and mythological future. It really began with William Hogarth. Hogarth was the first of these new artists … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alexander Pope, charles churchill, Charles Dickens, england 1784 election, George Cruickshank, George Romney, henry william bunbury, Honore Daumier, hoppner, Isaac Cruickshank, James Gillray, Jane Austen, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Joshua Reynolds, pierce egan, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, Victorian England, william dent, William Hogarth, william wells | Leave a comment

BETRAYED BY GUILT: MORDANT THEMES & PATHOLOGICAL DREAMS

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Dave

”’Dickens novels are not about violence, but they have a great deal of violence in them — physical violence, psychic violence, obsession, cruelty, abuse, the works,” says Steven Marcus, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Bob Fagin, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Charles Dickens John Forster, Daniel Maclise, David Copperfield, Dickens Barnaby Rudge, Dickens Oliver Twist, Dickens Pickwick papers, Elizabeth Dickens, George Cruikshank, John Dickens, John Forster, John Ruskin, Marilyn Stasio, Peter Ackroyd, Steven Marcus, Victorian England | Leave a comment

LOOK AT NOTHING BUT SEE EVERYTHING

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Dave

Andre Gide, a minor novelist, once called the “Comedie Humaine” of Balzac a great fresco crumbling to pieces a little more all the time. Given that he is not entirely wrong, it could be extrapolated today that the novel as … Continue reading →