Ulteriori informazioni
Association and Enlightenment focuses on the distinctive and complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. This edited volume offers a new approach to their history, bringing together the polite culture of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment with the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.
Sommario
Foreword
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: The Theory and Practice of Associational Life
Chapter 1: Politeness, Sociability, and the "Little Platoon": Associational Theory
in the Scottish Enlightenment
David Allan
Chapter 2: Buildings, Associations, and Culture in the Scottish Provincial Town, c.1700�30
Bob Harris
Part II: Professional Men and Their Societies
Chapter 3: Medical Societies and the Scottish Enlightenment
Jacqueline Jenkinson
Chapter 4: Professors, Merchants and Ministers in the Clubs of Eighteenth-Century Glasgow
Ralph McLean
Part III: Clubs, Societies, and Literary Culture
Chapter 5: "Soaping" and "Shaving" the Public Sphere: James Boswell's "Soaping Club" and Edinburgh Enlightenment Sociability
James J. Caudle
Chapter 6: The "Bohemian Club": A Study of Edinburgh's Cape Club
Rhona Brown
Chapter 7: "Caledonia's Bard, Brother Burns": Robert Burns and Scottish Freemasonry
Corey E. Andrews
Chapter 8: Inventing the Public Sphere: Fictional Club Life in Ireland and Scotland
Martyn J. Powell
Part IV: Gender and Associational Culture
Chapter 9: Achieving Manhood in Associational Culture: Student Societies and Masculinity
in Enlightenment Edinburgh
Rosalind Carr
Chapter 10: Women's Associations in Scotland, 1790�30
Jane Rendall
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Info autore
MARK WALLACE is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
JANE RENDALL is an honorary fellow of the History Department and the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York (UK).
Riassunto
Association and Enlightenment focuses on the distinctive and complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. This edited volume offers a new approach to their history, bringing together the polite culture of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment with the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.
