{"id":392,"date":"2014-10-08T21:09:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T01:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/?p=392"},"modified":"2014-10-08T21:09:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T01:09:37","slug":"talboys-literary-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/2014\/10\/08\/talboys-literary-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"Talboys\u2019 Literary Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before we are even given a chance to be told George Talboys\u2019 library inventory, it is described as \u201cno very brilliant collection of literature.\u201d The narrator starts by describing the contents of the trunk, which all seem old and random. Robert Audley treats the items with \u201crespectful tenderness,\u201d showing that the items clearly seemed to be meaningful. The literature found was kept out, \u00a0hoping that the themes will play some importance in Audley\u2019s search. The first is Eton Latin Grammar, which was a standard Latin textbook for schoolboys in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. Henry Fielding\u2019s \u201cThe History of Tom Jones, A Foundling\u201d is a well received and poplar novel of an abandoned found on a property, who then falls in love with the neighbors daughter and has to deal with class friction in society. \u201cDon Juan,\u201d written by Byron, a leading poet in the Romantic movement, tells the legend of a man easily seduced by women, which was popular but criticized for immoral content.<\/p>\n<p>All of the literature found seems to be popular of the time. Eton Latin Grammar shows a possible interest in different languages or cultures. It was also supported by royalty in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century, making it the only Latin textbook available in schools and widespread throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This shows Talboys\u2019 possible respect and loyalty toward those in a higher social standing than him. Both \u201cTom Jones\u201d and \u201cDon Juan\u201d show reoccurring themes of love and the sacrifices that come with it. This suggests that Talboys was interested in romantic literature, and could sympathize with some of the repercussions of love. George Talboys\u2019 library gives the impression that he reads a variety of different novels, all of which are culturally and socially acceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we are even given a chance to be told George Talboys\u2019 library inventory, it is described as \u201cno very brilliant collection of literature.\u201d The narrator starts by describing the contents of the trunk, which all seem old and random. Robert Audley treats the items&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}