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| - | <div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em">Although the first medico-scientific treatise on the subject came from Germany by way of the German doctor [[Johann Heinrich Meibom]], [[flagellation]] is often considered to be '[[le vice anglais]]' ([[British erotica|the British vice]]) par excellence. [[Mario Praz]] came to this conclusion, corroborated by both [[Ashbee]] and [[Iwan Bloch]] (''[[Sex Life in England]]''), on the basis of the fact that most [[flagellant novel]]s have been produced in Anglo-Saxon countries. | + | <div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em">''[[On Ugliness]]'' (It: ''Storia della bruttezza'') by [[Umberto Eco]] is an [[visual culture]] [[history]] book first published in October 2007. ''On Ugliness'' is a study of the concept of [[ugliness]] through time, an analysis of an idea through its manifestation in visual art, and to a lesser extent in literature, architecture and photography. |
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| - | In his appendix "[[The_Romantic_Agony#Appendix.2C_.E2.80.9CSwinburne_and_.E2.80.98Le_Vice_Anglais.2C.E2.80.9D_437-457.|Swinburne and 'Le Vice Anglais']]" in his classic study ''[[The Romantic Agony]]'', Praz traces the literary trope of the sadistic Englishman in French and Italian literature to [[George Selwyn]], [[Frederick Hankey]] and [[Algernon Swinburne]]. He finds this stereotype in the novels ''[[La Faustin]]'' by [[Edmond de Goncourt]], ''[[The Child of Pleasure ]]'' by [[Gabriele d'Annunzio ]] and ''[[Monsieur du Paur]]'' by [[Paul-Jean Toulet]]. | + | |
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On Ugliness (It: Storia della bruttezza) by Umberto Eco is an visual culture history book first published in October 2007. On Ugliness is a study of the concept of ugliness through time, an analysis of an idea through its manifestation in visual art, and to a lesser extent in literature, architecture and photography.
