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Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the
contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American
history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in
debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of
politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of
literature, science, and medicine.
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the
contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American
history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in
debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of
politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of
literature, science, and medicine.
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the
contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American
history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in
debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of
politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of
literature, science, and medicine.
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the
contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American
history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in
debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of
politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of
literature, science, and medicine.
The eighteenth century saw profound changes in the way prostitution
was represented in literary and visual culture. This collection of
essays focuses on the variety of ways that the sex trade was
represented in popular culture of the time, across different art
forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations.
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the
contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American
history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in
debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of
politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of
literature, science, and medicine.
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the
contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American
history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in
debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of
politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of
literature, science, and medicine.
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the
contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American
history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in
debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of
politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of
literature, science, and medicine.
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the
contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American
history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in
debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of
politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of
literature, science, and medicine.
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.
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the
contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American
history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in
debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of
politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of
literature, science, and medicine.
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the
earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the
mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century
with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823,
and the dissolution of the East India Company's monopoly on the tea
trade in 1833.
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the
earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the
mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century
with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823,
and the dissolution of the East India Company's monopoly on the tea
trade in 1833.
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the
earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the
mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century
with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823,
and the dissolution of the East India Company's monopoly on the tea
trade in 1833.
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the
earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the
mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century
with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823,
and the dissolution of the East India Company's monopoly on the tea
trade in 1833.
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the
contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American
history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in
debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of
politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of
literature, science, and medicine.
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.
The eighteenth century saw profound changes in the way prostitution
was represented in literary and visual culture. This collection of
essays focuses on the variety of ways that the sex trade was
represented in popular culture of the time, across different art
forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations.
The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from
its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through
nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and
vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Approaching key
novels by authors such as Walpole (The Castle of Otranto),
Radcliffe (The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho),
Austen (Northanger Abbey), Wollstonecraft (The Wrongs of Woman),
Lewis (The Monk), Shelley (Frankenstein), Stoker (Dracula) and
Halperin (White Zombie), the argument proceeds on historicist
principles, analysing the peculiar tone of these fictions and
uncovering themes of credulity and reason, secrecy and
enlightenment, tyranny and libertinism, sexuality and gender, race
and miscegenation. The final chapters on the vampire and the zombie
examine how the un-dead of gothic terror are embedded in an
argument from history. Written with an undergraduate audience in
mind, this text offers a synthesis of the main topics of Gothic
interest and clearly argued summaries of critical debate. It
signals its difference from popular psychoanalytic readings of
Gothic and argues instead for a more complex, multilayered approach
via an historicist reading of Gothic fiction. Illustrated with ten
black and white plates and including up-to-date bibliographies,
this will be an ideal text for all those with an interest in the
Gothic. Key Features: * written with an undergraduate audience in
mind * covers topics such as vampires, zombies, tyrants, banditti
and demon-lovers * offers clearly argued summaries of critical
debate
Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in
Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London,
where it became an exotic, highly sought-after commodity. Over the
subsequent two centuries, tea's powerful psychoactive properties
seduced British society, becoming popular across the nation from
castle to cottage. Now the world's most popular drink, tea was one
of the first truly global products to find a mass market, with tea
drinking now stereotypically associated with British identity. The
delicate flavour profile and hot preparation of tea inspired poets,
artists and satirists. Tea was embroiled in controversy, from the
gossip of the domestic tea table to the civil disorder occasioned
by smuggling and the political scandal of the Boston Tea Party.
Based on extensive original research, and now available in
paperback, Empire of Tea provides a rich cultural history that
explores how the British `way of tea' became the norm across the
Anglophone world.
The sentimental novel has long been noted for its liberal and
humanitarian interests, but also for its predilection for refined
feeling, the privilege it accords emotion over reason, and its
preference for the private over the public sphere. In The Politics
of Sensibility, however, Markman Ellis argues that sentimental
fiction also consciously participated in some of the most keenly
contested public controversies of the late eighteenth century,
including the emergence of anti-slavery opinion, discourse on the
morality of commerce, and the movement for the reformation of
prostitutes. By investigating the significance of political
material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which
the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows
that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable
cultural significance.
The sentimental novel has long been noted for its liberal and
humanitarian interests, but also for its predilection for refined
feeling, the privilege it accords emotion over reason, and its
preference for the private over the public sphere. In The Politics
of Sensibility, however, Markman Ellis argues that sentimental
fiction also consciously participated in some of the most keenly
contested public controversies of the late eighteenth century,
including the emergence of anti-slavery opinion, discourse on the
morality of commerce, and the movement for the reformation of
prostitutes. By investigating the significance of political
material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which
the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows
that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable
cultural significance.
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