British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century
Challenging the Anglo-French Connection
1st Edition
Published on 21. June 2019
320 pages
978-1-78744-490-4 (ISBN)
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This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a complex process of appropriation, emulationand resistance to what was happening in France and other parts of Europe.
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Persons
Capdeville Valérie:
VALÉRIE CAPDEVILLE is Professor of British History and Civilisation at the University of Rennes 2.Kerhervé Alain:
ALAIN KERHERVÉ is Professor of British Studies at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines Victor Segalan, University of West Brittany (UBO Brest).Cohen Michèle:
MICHÈLE COHEN is emeritus Professor of Humanities, Richmond, American International University in London, UK.Capdeville Valérie:
VALÉRIE CAPDEVILLE is Professor of British History and Civilisation at the University of Rennes 2.Kerhervé Alain:
ALAIN KERHERVÉ is Professor of British Studies at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines Victor Segalan, University of West Brittany (UBO Brest).Cowan Brian:
BRIAN COWAN is an Associate Professor of History at McGill University.Ellis Markman:
MARKMAN ELLIS is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
VALÉRIE CAPDEVILLE is Professor of British History and Civilisation at the University of Rennes 2.Kerhervé Alain:
ALAIN KERHERVÉ is Professor of British Studies at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines Victor Segalan, University of West Brittany (UBO Brest).Cohen Michèle:
MICHÈLE COHEN is emeritus Professor of Humanities, Richmond, American International University in London, UK.Capdeville Valérie:
VALÉRIE CAPDEVILLE is Professor of British History and Civilisation at the University of Rennes 2.Kerhervé Alain:
ALAIN KERHERVÉ is Professor of British Studies at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines Victor Segalan, University of West Brittany (UBO Brest).Cowan Brian:
BRIAN COWAN is an Associate Professor of History at McGill University.Ellis Markman:
MARKMAN ELLIS is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
Content
Foreword - Michèle Cohen
Introduction - Valérie Capdeville and Alain Kerhervé
'Restoration' England and the History of Sociability - Brian Cowan
Mapping Sociability on Restoration Townscapes - Marie-Madeleine Martinet
Club Sociability and the Emergence of New 'Sociable' Practices - Valérie Capdeville
The Tea-table, Women, and Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain - Markman Ellis
'Amateurs' vs. Connoisseurs in French and English Academies of Painting - Elisabeth Martichou
Masonic Connections and Rivalries between France and Britain - Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire
Competing Models of Sociability: Smollett's Repossession of an Ailing British Body - Annick Cossic
A Theory of British Epistolary Sociability? - Alain Kerhervé
Gender and the Practices of Polite Sociability in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh - Jane Rendall
In Company and Out: The Public/Private Selves of Johnson and Boswell - Allan Ingram
Friendship and Unsociable Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Literature - Emrys Jones
The Anti-social Convivialist: Toasting and Resistance to Sociability - Ian Newman
Sociability and the Glorious Revolution: A Dubious Connection in Burke's Philosophy - Norbert Col
Respectability vs Political Agency: A Dilemma for British Radical Societies - Remy Duthille
Conclusion - Valérie Capdeville
Introduction - Valérie Capdeville and Alain Kerhervé
'Restoration' England and the History of Sociability - Brian Cowan
Mapping Sociability on Restoration Townscapes - Marie-Madeleine Martinet
Club Sociability and the Emergence of New 'Sociable' Practices - Valérie Capdeville
The Tea-table, Women, and Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain - Markman Ellis
'Amateurs' vs. Connoisseurs in French and English Academies of Painting - Elisabeth Martichou
Masonic Connections and Rivalries between France and Britain - Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire
Competing Models of Sociability: Smollett's Repossession of an Ailing British Body - Annick Cossic
A Theory of British Epistolary Sociability? - Alain Kerhervé
Gender and the Practices of Polite Sociability in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh - Jane Rendall
In Company and Out: The Public/Private Selves of Johnson and Boswell - Allan Ingram
Friendship and Unsociable Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Literature - Emrys Jones
The Anti-social Convivialist: Toasting and Resistance to Sociability - Ian Newman
Sociability and the Glorious Revolution: A Dubious Connection in Burke's Philosophy - Norbert Col
Respectability vs Political Agency: A Dilemma for British Radical Societies - Remy Duthille
Conclusion - Valérie Capdeville
