The belle époque, the long summer garden party of the Edwardian afternoon, when there was a lightness in the air, when “the fruit was ripe and we were eating it”; all that was a class-based, wishful misremembering across the chasm of 1914–18.
—Lisa Tickner, The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907–14
In retrospect it may seem a belle époque, but no époque is altogether ...
Event Location:
New Haven, Connecticut
Event type:
Event
Categories:
American [2]
Comparative [3]
French [5]
British [6]
German [7]
Popular Culture [8]
Literary Theory [10]
Sponsoring Organization(s) :
Yale Center for British Art
Event date:
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Abstract due date:
Monday, January 7, 2013
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