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British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century - Challenging the Anglo-French Connection (Hardcover)
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British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century - Challenging the Anglo-French Connection (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the Eighteenth Century
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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, emulation and resistance to what was
happening in France and other parts of Europe. The study of
sociability in the long eighteenth century has long been dominated
by the example of France. In this innovative collection, we see 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, emulation and
resistance to what was happening in France and other parts of
Europe. The contributors use a wide range of sources - from city
plans to letter-writing manuals, from the writings of Edmund Burke
to poems and essays about the social practices of the tea table,
and a variety of methodological approaches to explore
philosophical, political and social aspects of the emergence of
British sociability in this period. They create a rounded picture
of sociability as it happened in public, private and domestic
settings - in Masonic lodges and radical clubs, in painting
academies and private houses - and compare specific examples and
settings with equivalents in France, bringing out for instance the
distinctively homo-social and predominantly masculine form of
British sociability, the role of sociabilitywithin a wider national
identity still finding its way after the upheaval of civil war and
revolution in the seventeenth century, and the almost unique
capacity of the British model of sociability to benefit from its
own apparent tensions and contradictions.
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