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British sociability in the long eighteenth century : challenging the Anglo-French connection /
The study of sociability in the long eighteenth century has long been dominated by the example of France. In this innovative collection, we see how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a comple...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
The Boydell Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Studies in the eighteenth century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 Emergence of new political and social practices; 1 'Restoration' England and the history of sociability; 2 Mapping sociability on Restoration townscapes; 3 Club sociability and the emergence of new 'sociable' practices; 4 The tea-table, women and gossip in early eighteenth-century Britain; Part 2 Competing models of sociability; 5 'Amateurs' vs connoisseurs in French and English academies of painting; 6 Masonic connections and rivalries between France and Britain
- 7 Competing models of sociability: Smollett's repossession of an ailing British body8 A theory of British epistolary sociability?; 9 Gender and the practices of polite sociability in late eighteenth-century Edinburgh; Part 3 Paradoxes of British sociability; 10 In company and out: the public/private selves of Johnson and Boswell; 11 Friendship and unsociable sociability in eighteenth-century literature; 12 The anti-social convivialist: toasting and resistance to sociability; 13 Sociability and the Glorious Revolution: a dubious connection in Burke's philosophy
- 14 Respectability vs political agency: a dilemma for British radical societiesConclusion; Bibliography; Index