Sociable Places - Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain

Informationen zum Autor Kevin Gilmartin is Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology, and has been a regular visiting professor in English at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York. He works on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, with a particular interest in the politics of print culture and the history of print media. His most recent book is William Hazlitt: Political Essayist (2015). Klappentext This collection explores how location shaped sociability in the Romantic period. Zusammenfassung Ranging across literature! theater! history and the visual arts! this collection of essays explores the range of places where British Romantic-period sociability transpired. Specialist and non-specialists readers can revisit the rooms! buildings! landscapes and seascapes where people gathered to converse! to eat and drink! to work and to find entertainment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Kevin Gilmartin; Part I. Print Relations: 1. Recovering the country book club Ina Ferris; 2. 'Bread and cheese and porter only being allowed': radical spaces in London, 1792-5 Jon Mee; 3. Piccadilly booksellers and conservative sociability David Fallon; Part II. Sociable Spectacle: 4. Proxy Israelites: staging ethnic violence in the ring and the pit Daniel O'Quinn; 5. Fashionable subjects: exhibition culture and the limits of sociability Paul Keen; Part III. Interior Places: 6. 'The place is not free to you': the Georgian assembly room and the ends of sociability Gillian Russell; 7. Unconventional calling: Godwin, women and visiting in the 1790s Mark Philp; Part IV. Traveling Sociability: 8. Sociability among the ruins: the Colosseum by moonlight, circa 1820 Christopher Rovee; 9. Sociability by the sea side: Margate before 1815 Harriet Guest; 10. Lower deck narratives and sociability in the British Navy, 1750-1815 Nicholas Rogers.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Gilmartin, Kevin (California Institute of Technolo Gilmartin
• Assisted by: Kevin Gilmartin (Editor), Kevin (California Institute of Technology) Gilmartin (Editor), Gilmartin Kevin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107064782
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06478-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; English, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, British Isles, Literature: history and criticism, Educational: English Literature, C 1700 To C 1800, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies