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"Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wallace, Mark C. (Editor ), Rendall, Jane, 1945- (Editor ), Whatley, Christopher A. (writer of foreword.), Rendall, Jane, Allan, David, Harris, Bob, Jenkinson, Jacqueline, McLean, Ralph, Caudle, James J., Brown, Rhona, Andrews, Corey
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisberg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2021]
Colección:Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland Ser.
Temas:
1700-1899
Clubs > Scotland > History > 18th century.
Clubs > Scotland > History > 19th century.
Societies > Scotland > History > 18th century.
Societies > Scotland > History > 19th century.
Clubs > Écosse > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Clubs > Écosse > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY / General
Clubs.
Societies.
Scotland.
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Scotland, Nineteenth-Century, Clubs, Societies, Class, Culture, Gender, Scottish Enlightenment, Britain, Ireland, History, Literary Culture, Edinburgh.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword by Christopher A. Whatley
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction \ Mark C. Wallace and Jane Rendall
  • Part I. The Theory and Practice of Associational Life
  • 1. Politeness, Sociability, and the "Little Platoon": Associational Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment \ David Allan
  • 2. Buildings, Associations, and Culture in the Scottish Provincial Town, c. 1700-1830 \ Bob Harris
  • Part II. Professional Men and Their Societies
  • 3. Medical Societies and the Scottish Enlightenment \ Jacqueline Jenkinson
  • 4. Professors, Merchants, and Ministers in the Clubs of Eighteenth-Century Glasgow \ Ralph McLean
  • Part III. Clubs, Societies, and Literary Culture
  • 5. "Soaping" and "Shaving" the Public Sphere: James Boswell's "Soaping Club" and Edinburgh Enlightenment Sociability \ James J. Caudle
  • 6. The "Bohemian Club": A Study of Edinburgh's Cape Club \ Rhona Brown
  • 7. "Caledonia's Bard, Brother Burns": Robert Burns and Scottish Freemasonry \ Corey E. Andrews
  • 8. Inventing the Public Sphere: Fictional Club Life in Ireland and Scotland \ Martyn J. Powell
  • Part IV. Gender and Associational Culture
  • 9. Achieving Manhood in Associational Culture: Student Societies and Masculinity in Enlightenment Edinburgh \ Rosalind Carr
  • 10. Women's Associations in Scotland, 1790-1830 \ Jane Rendall
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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