The Age of Scandal: An Excursion Through a Minor Period - Softcover

White, T H

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0146003799 ISBN 13: 9780146003790

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2001

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RO60065535. THE AGE OF SCANDAL, AN EXCURSION THROUGH A MINOR PERIOD. 1962. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 233 pages. Illustré de photos en noir et blanc hors texte. Coiffe en pied légèrement fendue (mords droit).. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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This amusing foray into eighteenth-century literature is an entertaining tabloid biography of an age not unlike our own; men and women of fashion led their lives under the avid scrutiny of a public who had a sharp appetite for scandal and sensation. In the period between the so-called Age of Reason and the Romantic Revival ... that which the author calls the Age of Scandal ... aristocratic and privileged eccentrics flourished and the professional writer declined. Here we meet notorious persons such as the Marquis de Sade; the Duke of Queensberry; who dislocated London's milk supply; and the countess of Kingston, who journeyed to Rome in the hope of seducing the Pope. There are also lesser figures like the Misses Gunning, who were so beautiful that seven hundred people sat up all night to see them leave an inn. T.H. White contends that these cultivated and fortunate individuals, best represented by Horace Walpole, were Elizabethan in their natures, without the formality of Alexander Pope or the exaggerated raptures of William Wordsworth.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0146003799
• ISBN 13: 9780146003790
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
• Herausgeber: Neale Greg
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar