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Women, Sociability and Theatre in Georgian London (Hardcover)
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Women, Sociability and Theatre in Georgian London (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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Mid-eighteenth-century London witnessed a major expansion in public
culture as a result of a rapidly commercialising society. Of the
many sites of entertainment, the most celebrated (and often
notorious) were the Carlisle House club, the Pantheon, and the
Ladies Club or Coterie. In this major study of these institutions
and the fashionable sociability they epitomised, Gillian Russell
examines how they transformed metropolitan cultural life.
Associated with lavish masquerades, excesses of fashion, such as
elaborate hairstyles, and scandalous intrigues, these venues
suggested a feminisation of public life which was profoundly
threatening, not least to the theatre of the period. In this highly
illustrated and original contribution to the cultural history of
the eighteenth century, Russell reveals fresh perspectives on the
theatre and on canonical plays such as The School for Scandal, as
well as suggesting a prehistory for British Romanticism.
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