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Framing The Authentic: The Modern Tourist And The Innocents Abroad, Richard S. Lowry
Framing The Authentic: The Modern Tourist And The Innocents Abroad, Richard S. Lowry
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"In one of the best known moments in Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad, he visits what he calls " the most celebrated painting in the world- 'The Last Supper' by Leonardo Da Vinci."' Coming as it does in the midst of what is already, barely a quarter of the way into the narrative, an almost frantic gallop through hotels, cathedrals, and museums, the episode represents just one more s top on a hectic itinerary. In Milan a lone, itself sandwiched between a few days each in Genoa and Venice, the travelers already have visited the Duomo and its "7,148 marble …
An Interview With William Morris, September, 1885: His Arrest And Freedom Of Speech, Terry L. Meyers
An Interview With William Morris, September, 1885: His Arrest And Freedom Of Speech, Terry L. Meyers
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"Until recently, it had been presume that after William Morris was arrested on September 21, 1885, in a me lee at the Thames Police Court, he made no public comment on the incident (Thompson 398). Norman Kelvin's edition of Morris's letters, however, includes a letter about the incident to the Daily News published on September 23, 1885 (Morris 456-57). To this letter may now be added the following interview with Morris printed in the Pall Mall Gazette, also on September 23, 1885, p. 4..."