The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic 306 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION 8:2 history and anthropology. But, in the short run, Darnton's sensitivity as a reader of culture would be complemented by a similar talent that had mastered the rhetorical and narrative ...
There was a general mistrust of any kind of sensual pleasure, which included standing around and taking in a nice view. You were supposed to keep your dirty, worldly eyes to yourself. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—com...
The Cat Returns, a Studio Ghibli animation where we meet Muta, the white cat. There is no obvious aerial view of the crossroads, which is interesting. The crossroads are more metaphorical than actual. Instead of gothic trees and ravens, we are comforted by a cute coffee shop. And To Think...
Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order...
Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1916, Miranda from The Tempest Howard Pyle ‘Marooned’ Island stories also generally involvefire building. Fires are a sign of culture, dividing humans from other animals (who cannot deliberately make fire). ...