Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.

Several Abenaki characters and much about their 18th-century culture are featured in the Kenneth Roberts novel Arundel ( 1930 ).

Eunuchs feature prominently in Montesquieu's 1722 novel Lettres Persanes, supposedly about Persian visitors to 18th-century France.

Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 drama film based upon Christopher Hampton's play, Les liaisons dangereuses, which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

In this same year, she co-starred with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe in the drama film Cruel Intentions, a modern take on the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

One of the masterpieces of Chinese vernacular fiction is the 18th-century domestic novel Dream of the Red Chamber ( 紅樓夢 ).

Robert Hans van Gulik (, August 9, 1910, Zutphen – September 24, 1967, The Hague ) was a highly educated orientalist, diplomat, musician ( of the guqin ), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.

During World War II van Gulik translated the 18th-century detective novel Dee Goong An into English under the title Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee ( first published in Tokyo in 1949 ).

A heavily fictionalized version of Al-Wathiq appears in William Thomas Beckford's classic 18th-century gothic fantasy novel Vathek.

Here, Bakhtin completed work on a book concerning the 18th-century German novel which was subsequently accepted by the Sovetskii Pisatel ' Publishing House.

In 1961 he published the mystery Il giorno della civetta ( The Day of the Owl ), one of his most famous novels, and in 1963, the historical novel Il consiglio d ' Egitto ( The Council of Egypt ), set in 18th-century Palermo.

Published in 1916, this historical novel about political uprising in 18th-century China was a literary breakthrough for Döblin, earning him literary acclaim, public recognition, and the prestigious Fontane Prize.

Published in 1916, ( although back-dated to 1915 ), this epic historical novel narrates upheaval and revolution in 18th-century China, and was favorably received by critics, who praised its detailed and exotic depictions of China.

Although 18th-century literature mentions Obeah often, one of the earliest references to Obeah in fiction can be found in 1800, in William Earle's novel Obi ; or, The History of Three-Finger'd Jack, a narrative inspired by true events that was also reinterpreted in several dramatic versions on the London stage in 1800 and following.

The novel is an intricate formal achievement modeled on much 18th-century fiction that was presented as a " diary discovered among the papers of.

Set in 18th-century New England, the novel explores New England history, highlights the issue of slavery, and critiques the Calvinist theology in which Stowe was raised.

Watt's view is that the critical feature of the 18th-century novel is the creation of psychological realism.

Watt's view is that the critical feature of the 18th-century novel is the creation of psychological realism.

In addition, the novel engages with the theme of finding one's home away from the native land, which can be identified in a range of fiction of 18th-century England.

It has been chiefly regarded as a pornographic novel, which accounts for its massive sales in 18th-century France ( as pornographic works were the most popular bestsellers of the time ).

This character, an idealized portrayal of " Nature's Gentleman ", was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism, along with other stock characters such as, the Virtuous Milkmaid, the Servant-More-Clever-than-the-Master ( such as Sancho Panza and Figaro, among countless others ), and the general theme of virtue in the lowly born.

Stede Bonnet ( c. 1688 – 10 December 1718 ) was an early 18th-century Barbadian pirate, sometimes called " The Gentleman Pirate " because he was a moderately wealthy landowner before turning to a life of crime.

One of the three main characters is an 18th-century Chinese woman who arrives in a modern hospital waiting room seeking medical help for complications resulting from her bound feet.

His play When Crummles Played, drawn from characters from Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby and featuring those characters performing Lillo's George Barnwell, an 18th-century moral melodrama, opened at the Garrick Theatre on October 1, 1928.

His late 17th-century / early 18th-century exploits as a street urchin, mercenary soldier, vagabond, errand-boy, merchant, galley-slave, pirate, petty despot, spy, coiner, and terrorist in the employ of King Louis XIV are the subject, in the world of Stephenson's epic, not only of much of the text proper but also of widely-popular picaresque novels read by various characters in the story.

In line with late 18th-century sensibility and its parallel fetishisation of the sublime and the sentimentally pastoral, the heightened emotional states of Radcliffe's characters are often reflected through the pathetic fallacy.

There are many other places and objects worth seeing, for example a notable number of churches and monasteries, a few remarkable 17th-and 18th-century buildings in the particular Baroque style typical of the region, a collection of statues and monuments, park areas, cemeteries, among others.

English sailors apparently named the species for its conspicuous yellow crest ; Maccaronism was a term for a particular style in 18th-century England marked by flamboyant or excessive ornamentation.

These theories were enhanced by 18th-century investigations of a variety of purely psychological color effects, in particular the contrast between " complementary " or opposing hues that are produced by color afterimages and in the contrasting shadows in colored light.

A great push came into Lehmann ’ s biography through the historian Selma Stern, who between 1925 and 1962 first dealt with the conditions of Jews in 17th-and 18th-century Prussia and then with court Jews in particular In her collection of documents his activities for the Halberstadt Jews and the Jewish community in general became more concrete.

A great deal of 17th-and 18th-century poetry was " occasional ", written to celebrate a particular event ( a marriage, birth, military victory ) or to solemnize a tragic occurrence ( a death, military defeat ), and this kind of poetry was frequent with gentlemen in the service of a noble or the king.

Glukhov, in particular, developed into a veritable capital of 18th-century Ukraine.

A great deal of 17th-and 18th-century poetry was " occasional ", meaning that it was written to celebrate a particular event ( a marriage, birth or a military victory ) or to solemnize a tragic occurrence ( a death or a military defeat ); this type of poetry was favored by gentlemen in the service of a noble or the king.

However, the arms are the result of an 18th-century restoration, as the original had the arms cut off in order to allow water to flow out.

In English, the terms poniard and dirk are loaned during the late 16th to early 17th century, the latter in the spelling dork, durk ( presumably via Low German, Dutch or Scandinavian dolk, dolch, ultimately from a West Slavic tulich ), the modern spelling dirk dating to 18th-century Scots.

Two manuscripts are known to have existed, both dated to the late 16th century and written respectively in Italian and in Spanish — although the Spanish manuscript is now lost, its text surviving only in a partial 18th-century transcript.

Thus, for example, around 60 manuscripts are extant containing Welsh-language versions of the Historia, the earliest of which were created in the 13th century ; the old notion that some of these Welsh versions actually underlie Geoffrey's Historia, advanced by antiquarians such as the 18th-century Lewis Morris, has long since been discounted in academic circles.

The 18th-century painters Maurice Quentin de La Tour ( see above portrait ) and Rosalba Carriera are especially well known for their pastel technique.

Christian Universalist ideas are first undisputedly documented in 17th-century England and 18th-century Europe and America.

The locus classicus of the 18th-century portrayal of the American Indian are the famous lines from Alexander Pope's " Essay on Man " ( 1734 ):

This 18th-century term, endorsed by John Wesley who remained within the Church of England, describes how people serving in different geographical centres are ' connected ' to each other.

Closer to the confluence of the Om and the Irtysh are the few surviving sombre buildings of the 18th-century fortress.

Among the several 18th-century buildings remaining are a Friends ' meetinghouse ( 1788 ), the Martine house ( 1717 ), and the Nathaniel Drake House ( 1746 ), known as George Washington's headquarters.

Others among the 19 grade II listed buildings in Bowlish include Coombe House, which was built c. 1820 ; 14, 15 and 16 Combe Lane, which were built around 1700 with 18th-century alterations ; 26 to 29 Combe Lane, which is a former mill built around 1700 and enlarged in 1850 ; and 30 and 31 Combe Lane, which are two weaver's cottages dating to about 1850.

But their distances are not exact, as the 18th-century geographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d ' Anville remarks, for Noyon is further from Amiens and nearer to Soissons than the itinerary says.

On the hillside above the river are situated the stone-built 16th-century hunting lodge at Lincoln Hill, many 17th-and 18th-century workers cottages, some imposing Georgian houses built by ironmasters and mine and canal barge owners, and many early Victorian villas built from the various coloured bricks and tiles of the locality.

There are two complete 18th-century rooms from Europe on display.

More often than not, especially in 18th-century compositions, the A and B sections are separated by double bars with repeat signs, meaning both sections were to be repeated.

There are also an exquisite collection of Greek vases, the world-wide important collection of Paintings of Jean-Baptiste Oudry, a remarkable collection of sculptures of Houdon, German 18th-century court paintings, and works by such modern artists as Max Liebermann, Franz Stuck, Marcel Duchamp etc.

Reference by 17th-century chroniclers has been claimed, but in the following all published accounts are 18th-century or later.

They are still notable for their collection of trees ( specimens include a holm oak, silver pendent lime, tulip tree, golden yew, purple beech, cedar of Lebanon, ginkgo, giant redwood, tree of heaven, incense cedar, Corsican pine, magnolia and a rare Chinese gutta-percha ) and they still contain a number of vestigial curiosities from the past ( notably an 18th-century ‘ cowshed ’ set into the remnants of the Royalist earthworks of 1642, and a sculpture of Warden Bowra ).

Worth seeing are the 18th-century Orangerie ( from orange ), initially used as a summerhouse, the Schloßkirche ( Palace Church ) built in 1855 – 1859 in English Neo-Gothic style, the Neoclassic Hebe temple ( with a replica of a statue of the goddess Hebe ), and the Louise Temple, built in 1891 in the shape of a Greek temple to house the tomb of Queen Louise of Prussia, born Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Most of the surviving houses are 18th-century or earlier in construction.

He claimed, “ the best sites for ‘ earth art ’ are sites that have been disrupted by industry, reckless urbanization, or nature ’ s own devastation .” While in earlier 18th-century formal characterizations of the pastoral and the sublime, something like a “ gash in the ground ” if encountered by a “ leveling improver ”, as described by Price, would have been smoothed over and the whole composition returned to a more aesthetically pleasing contour For Smithson, however, it was not necessary that the deformation become a visual aspect of a landscape ; by his anti-formalist logic, more important was the temporal scar worked over by natural or human intervention.

Calypso's roots are somewhat unclear, but it can be traced to 18th-century Trinidad.