Early in the narrative of Befindu, Maria Edgeworth uses Lady Singleton's masquerade ball to
unveil the virtues and defects of her principal characters. Lady Delacour, Belinda's social …

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Anglo-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) shared drawings of a sexually charged and
implied sadistic nature among an elite and intimate group of male artists. These drawings …

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Using methodologies developed by current practitioners in religion-science studies, this
thesis attempts a new reading of Erasmus Darwin's didactic poem The Temple of Nature …

Like his greater rival George Stubbs, the eighteenth-century animal painter Sawrey Gilpin
attempted to raise his art to the level of history painting. In subjects chosen from British …

“Dream paintings” were by no means a new subject within the art historical canon when
Henry Fuseli began work upon his 1781 masterpiece, The Nightmare. Painting The …

This thesis provides a thematically-based interpretation of Henry Fuseli's art-making
focusing on his drawings of the 1770s-a period that is shown to be his most important phase …