...: cruel poems about physical defects and disabilities. Few texts could be more alien to current norms about the eighteenth century as an Age of Sensibility. Yet these “deformity poems” were produced in vast quantities and in every conceivable form, from epigrams about squinters, to long and absurdly...

... University Press 2015 Sociability Freemasonry Alienation Condescension Mutuality • The London Irish and the Antients Grand Lodge Ric Berman Oxford, England The Freemasonry associated with the original Grand...

... of note, either out of pure respect for sacred things or because they indicate a sort of tolerance that is alien and opposed to Catholicism” (fol. 145r). In other words, García’s objections fall under two categories: Pope’s sacrilegiousness and his tolerance. He...

... occurring within, and defining, the period covered by the book. Put baldly, in the beginning the prostitute was understood primarily, perhaps exclusively, as a creature of insa- tiable disorderly lust, but by the end as an alienated worker just like any other, forced to enter into an unfair contract...

... and Peter Sahlins have found the right of escheat to be a central element in the construction of “citizenship” as a category. Indeed, this term—despite what has sometimes been affirmed—is by no means alien to the adminis- trative lexicon of the Ancien Régime, though, obviously, it signifies some...

... and succour of each other” (The Rambler 24, 3:133); all read- ers will recognize these as sentiments that he frequently reiterates.16 In this reading of the city, as Nicholas Hudson observes, Johnson challenges the urban sociologist of our own times, for whom “the ‘urban man’ is an alien- ated...

... Casanova, with his multicolored humanoid aliens, takes his story decisively into territory that would become known more than a century later as “science fiction In its expanded version of 1764, the Viaggi is divided into two parts, the first (books I and II...

... their alienation within the community at large. Taking their seats before the stage is not, as d’Alembert assumes, a sign of a people attaining the heights of culture and good taste, but evidence of a social order already corrupted from within. “People think they come...

... of nativists obsessed with the betrayal of England (either directly by the Scots, or, and this suspicion rested on live memories, indirectly by France working through Scotland This idea of “an alien conspiracy at work in the political state” can be seen in Wilkes’s exaggera- tion, which reveals more...

... the contexts and implications of the images. The first major encounter between European and native cultures took place in North America and was marked by alienation. Failed attempts to enslave Amerindians and thereby domesticate their wildness led to the ECL26303...

... Susan Maslan s definition of the- atricality as the production of opaque, alienating relations between performers and spectators (120), but there is little in the introduction or following chap- ters that separates theatricality from simply theater or theatrical metaphors. While these are engaging...

... be understood as cautionary tales about the very real possibility of alienation, whether it be self-­effected or forced. As early as the 1670s, The Plain Dealer also demonstrates an anxiety about property and the potentially destabiliz- ing effects of property on a person’s identity. These plays present...

.... In chapter 1, Wright argues that Smollett's understudied novels, Ferdinand Count Fathom and Sir Launcelot Greaves , and little-known stage comedy, The Reprisal , illustrate the “juridical limbo in which travelers, noncitizens, and other outsiders become marooned on entering alien jurisdictions...

..., myths about Indian lasciviousness had combined with attempts to see the new disease as utterly alien, the product of a people unacquainted with the Christian faith. Such scapegoating had its domestic parallel: Also fre- quently mentioned as the source of syphilitic infection were Jews...

...; that is, an individual influences himself via a desire for identification (which fur- ther explains the force of the hymnal in shaping early Methodist religious experience).34 Because individuals, obviously, occupy their own physical bodies, people are naturally divided or alienated from each other...

... modernity. Clad in the traditional garb of an ancient Celtic periphery, and armed with medieval weaponry (clay- mores, dirks, a halberd, even a bardiche), the Jacobites are coded as sav- age, alien, other : as brutish anachronisms. Second, the painting provides 9 an explanation of their defeat, and it does...

... form” in Goldsmith’s Traveller.5 In the neoclassical view, the alien medium of the stone is all but absorbed into the verisimilitude of flesh, whereas from the countervailing Romantic vantage, it seems to qualify and even counteract the illusion. In The Prelude III Wordsworth sees the statue...

... in which the discourse of aesthetics is crucial to encounters between cul- tures that fail to mirror each other, or that mirror only with distortion. For Leask, an aesthetics of curiosity enables the representation of alien lands. For Maillet, actual mirrors and visual distortions take the central...

...- ism, decolonization, and sexual emancipation. As she explains so convincingly in her conclusion, The same alienating perspective that authorized the inven- tion of race provided, at the same time, the tools for questioning a unique sys- tem of values, and supplied the arguments for criticizing...

... and displaced urban space. Biblical accounts of apocalypse and wasteland described a landscape characterized by physical and psychological confusion and alienation, by an incoherent abundance of people and matter, and by a sense of profound void. As Still- ingfl eet and Evelyn tell us, wasteland...