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15 relations: A Handful of Dust, Augustus Pugin, Bernard Palissy, Charles Dickens, David Stove, Evelyn Waugh, Grotesque, Karl Popper, Liberalism, Modernism, Taste (sociology), Tribal chief, Victorian architecture, Victorian era, William Whewell.
A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh.
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Augustus Pugin
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1 March 181214 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist, and critic who is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style of architecture.
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Bernard Palissy
Bernard Palissy (c. 1510c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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David Stove
David Charles Stove (15 September 1927 – 2 June 1994), was an Australian philosopher.
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Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St.
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Grotesque
Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque (or grottoesque) has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.
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Karl Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher and professor.
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Liberalism
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality.
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Modernism
Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Taste (sociology)
In sociology, taste is an individual's personal and cultural patterns of choice and preference.
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Tribal chief
A tribal chief is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.
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Victorian architecture
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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William Whewell
William Whewell (24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science.
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