The romantic tavern : literature and conviviality in the age of revolution / Ian Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newman, Ian David, 1976- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 125.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 125

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taverns (Inns)--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Taverns (Inns).

Taverns (Inns) in literature.

Bars (Drinking establishments) in literature.

Drinking songs--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Drinking songs.

Bawdy poetry, English--History and criticism.

Bawdy poetry, English.

History.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Great Britain.

Intellectual life.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"The tavern is widely acknowledged as central to the cultural and political life of Britain, yet widely misunderstood. Ian Newman provides the first sustained account of one of the primary institutions of the late eighteenth-century public sphere. The tavern was a venue not only for serious political and literary debate, but also for physical pleasure - the ludic, libidinal and gastronomic enjoyments with which late Georgian public life was inextricably entwined. This study focuses on the architecture of taverns and the people who frequented them, as well as the artistic forms - drinking songs, ballads, Anacreontic poetry, and toasting - with which the tavern was associated. By examining the culture of conviviality that emerged alongside other new forms of sociability in the second half of the eighteenth century, The Romantic Tavern argues for the importance of conviviality as a complex new form of sociability shaped by masculine political gathering and mixed company entertainments"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Tavern space. The London tavern: Edmund Burke, the East India Company, and literary men

Crown and anchor dreams: sedition in the Strand

Part II. Tavern genres. Political ballads: Captain Morris and the convivial Whigs

Anacreontic odes: drink poetry and the politics of pleasure

Bawdy and lyrical ballads: Wordsworth and the ballad debates of the 1790s

Toasting: political speech, convivial art.

Notes:

Series numbering provided by vendor.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-269) and index.

ISBN:

9781108470377

1108470378

OCLC:

1089839258