British sociability in the long eighteenth century : challenging the Anglo-French connection / edited by Valérie Capdeville and Alain Kerhervé.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Capdeville, Valérie, editor.

Kerhervé, Alain, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Studies in the eighteenth century

Studies in the Eighteenth Century, 2398-9904

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social exchange.

History.

Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.

Great Britain.

Civilization.

Social exchange--History--18th century.

France--Civilization--18th century.

France.

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

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY, USA : The Boydell Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part 1 Emergence of new political and social practices p. 5

1 'Restoration' England and the history of sociability p. 7 / Brian Cowan

2 Mapping sociability on Restoration townscapes p. 25 / Marie-Madeleine Martinet

3 Club sociability and the emergence of new 'sociable' practices p. 45

4 The tea-table, women and gossip in early eighteenth-century Britain p. 69 / Markman Ellis

Part 2 Competing models of sociability p. 89

5 'Amateurs' vs connoisseurs in French and English academies of painting p. 91 / Elisabeth Martichou

6 Masonic connections and rivalries between France and Britain p. 109 / Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire

7 Competing models of sociability: Smollett's repossession of an ailing British body p. 127 / Annick Cossic-Péricarpin

8 A theory of British epistolary sociability? p. 145 / Alain Kerhervé

9 Gender and the practices of polite sociability in late eighteenth-century Edinburgh p. 163 / Jane Rendall

Part 3 Paradoxes of British sociability p. 183

10 In company and out: the public/private selves of Johnson and Boswell p. 185 / Allan Ingram

11 Friendship and unsociable sociability in eighteenth-century literature p. 199 / Emrys Jones

12 The anti-social convivialist: toasting and resistance to sociability p. 219 / Ian Newman

13 Sociability and the Glorious Revolution: a dubious connection in Burke's philosophy p. 237 / Norbert Col

14 Respectability vs political agency: a dilemma for British radical societies p. 251 / Rémy Duthille.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781787444904

1787444902

Publisher Number:

99987196353

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.