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The decline of classical eloquence and the rise of literary persuasion
The long battle between emotion and irony
I t takes all sorts. Some readers, for ...
When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors
Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive
With a strength of character that belied her fragile looks, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun pushed the boundaries of royal portraiture and, after the French Revolution, challenged the loss of female influence via every frill and fold in her work
Three accounts of modern liberalism
