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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

eighteenthcenturyfiction: The military contrast, print from 1773 I have always been fascinated by the paucity of direct discusion of contemporary wars in eighteenth-century fiction. I was away on vacation for almost a week, so this will have to stand in for my Tumblr Tuesday post for a few days. To learn more about war and fiction, read for free the following Eighteenth-Century Fiction special issue, “War/La Guerre”: Preface to War/La GuerreJulie Park How to Say Things with Guns: Military Technology and the Politics of Robinson CrusoeChristopher F. Loar Sterne, Sebald, and Siege ArchitectureJonathan Lamb The Soldierly Imagination: Narrating Fear in Defoe’s Memoirs of a CavalierSharon Alker The Crocodile Strikes Back: Saint Martin’s Interpretation of the French RevolutionFabienne Moore Transcendental Soldiers: Warfare in Schiller’s Wallenstein and Die Jungfrau von OrleansElisabeth Krimmer The Radical Education of Evenings at HomeMichelle Levy The Rake as Military Strategist: Clarissa and Eighteenth-Century WarfareM. John Cardwell “Domestic Virtues and National Importance”: Lord Nelson, Captain Wentworth, and the English Napoleonic War HeroJocelyn Harris Unravelling Ann Mills: Some Notes on Gender Construction and Naval HeroismFrank Felsenstein

eighteenthcenturyfiction:

The military contrast, print from 1773

I have always been fascinated by the paucity of direct discusion of contemporary wars in eighteenth-century fiction. I was away on vacation for almost a week, so this will have to stand in for my Tumblr Tuesday post for a few days.

To learn more about war and fiction, read for free the following Eighteenth-Century Fiction special issue, “War/La Guerre”:

Preface to War/La Guerre
Julie Park

How to Say Things with Guns: Military Technology and the Politics of Robinson Crusoe
Christopher F. Loar

Sterne, Sebald, and Siege Architecture
Jonathan Lamb

The Soldierly Imagination: Narrating Fear in Defoe’s Memoirs of a Cavalier
Sharon Alker

The Crocodile Strikes Back: Saint Martin’s Interpretation of the French Revolution
Fabienne Moore

Transcendental Soldiers: Warfare in Schiller’s Wallenstein and Die Jungfrau von Orleans
Elisabeth Krimmer

The Radical Education of Evenings at Home
Michelle Levy

The Rake as Military Strategist: Clarissa and Eighteenth-Century Warfare
M. John Cardwell

“Domestic Virtues and National Importance”: Lord Nelson, Captain Wentworth, and the English Napoleonic War Hero
Jocelyn Harris

Unravelling Ann Mills: Some Notes on Gender Construction and Naval Heroism
Frank Felsenstein

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red-phalaenopsis: Print from “La mode national ” 1895

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Print from “La mode national ” 1895

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mudwerks: (via Bicycling: c. 1887 - Vintagraph) Bicycling aquarelle print published by L. Prang & Co., Boston. Hy Sandham,  circa 1887.

mudwerks:

(via Bicycling: c. 1887 - Vintagraph)

Bicycling aquarelle print published by L. Prang & Co., Boston. Hy Sandham,  circa 1887.

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turner-d-century: steampunknation: Beware Airship Pirates Steampunk Art Print by Tiger House Art) ATTN: Cloggo

turner-d-century:

steampunknation:

Beware Airship Pirates Steampunk Art Print by Tiger House Art)

ATTN: Cloggo