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English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
Anglomania | Audience | Emotions | Enlightenment | Friendship | Theatre | Translation
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Flora Tristan [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
… défavorisés, ainsi que la force de ses liens d’amitié l’encouragèrent à développer une conscience politique et de classe. Les résultats de ses enquêtes, d’une teneur sociologique avant l’heure, contribuèrent à la circulation des … et des mécanismes du système libéral. L’autrice y examine l’état du paysage urbain, les rapports (de force) entre les classes et les sexes, les mœurs, les pratiques de sociabilité, la condition sociale des femmes et des travailleurs, et … elle l’était beaucoup moins, et de plus je la vis très inquiète. En 1835, la gêne commençait à se faire sentir dans la classe moyenne aussi bien que parmi les ouvriers. En 1839, je rencontrai à Londres une misère profonde dans le peuple ; …
Cosmopolitanism | Discrimination | France | Literature | Travel | Women
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Of Other Laws of Nature (1651) [ Concepts ]
… Leviathan. London: Printed for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1651. Text based on Pelican Classics edition. Full text from Project Gutenberg. … Of Other Laws of Nature (1651) …
Nature | Social Contract | Law
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A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians (1797) [ Practices / Concepts ]
… Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity. By William Wilberforce, Esq. Member of Parliament for the …
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Of Natural Laws (1651) [ Concepts ]
… Leviathan. London: Printed for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1651. Text based on Pelican Classics edition. Full text from Project Gutenberg. … Of Natural Laws (1651) …
Nature | Social Contract | Law | Death
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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… royal academies to the academies salonnières of Italy, they incarnated the practices of the educated, intellectual classes in Europe. In Italy, Arcadia was a prime example of how academies came to be defined as spaces of sociability. … intellectual sociability. Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel (1690) defined the academy as an ‘assembly of the educated classes, where science and the fine arts are cultivated.’ In France, their association with the crown—academies were … Further Reading Beaurepaire, Pierre-Yves, Häseler, Jens et McKenna, Antony (dirs.), Réseaux de correspondance à l’âge classique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) (Saint-Etienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Etienne, 2006) Betri, Maria Luisa et …
Academies | France | Italy | Literature
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The Nature, Design, and General Rules, of the United Societies (1743) [ Practices / Concepts ]
… whether they are indeed working out their own Salvation, each Society is divided into smaller Companies, called Classes, according to their respective Places of Abode. There are about twelve persons in every Class; one of whom is styled The Leader . It is his Business: I. To see each Person in his Class once a Week at least; in order To inquire how their souls prosper; To advise, reprove, comfort or exhort, as …
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… gambling clubs or elite assemblies at private residences to popular city taverns or coffeehouses where various social classes mingled and indulged in fashionable games, thus fostering new forms of sociable interactions. Treatises and … men. 3 . G. O. Trevelyan, The Early History of Charles James Fox (London: Longmans, Green & co, 1881), p. 88-89. Popular classes spent their meagre savings in the numerous gambling houses, taverns or coffee-houses of the capital, even after … faro players at Brooks’s relentlessly reproduced the same gestures: 14 . Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class [1899] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 53. They began by pulling off their embroidered clothes, and put …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… passage that was intended to finish an elite young man’s education and form his identity as a member of Britain’s ruling class. While the Grand Tour has typically been understood within an Anglophone context, there is a growing understanding … would tour cabinets of curiosities, collections of arts and antiquities, battlefield and fortresses. They would take in classical ruins and modern sites of industry and commerce, witness scientific experiments and attend lectures, concerts, … 2803-2845, Accessed on 05/15/2024, URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/grand-tour.html Further Reading Ayres, P., Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). …
Academies | Cosmopolitanism | Court | Diplomacy | Education | Elite | Europe | Italy | Tourism | Politeness | Travel
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