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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.
List of contents
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
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Valérie Capdeville, Alain Kerhervé
Summary
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.
