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Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
Cosmopolitanism | Deism | Enlightenment | Exploration | Freemasonry | Religion | Solitude
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Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
Dissent | Fiction | Friendship | Tories | Satire | Whigs
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Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… it and gained benefit from it. 1 . Charles Dickens, Household Words, 17 January 1852, p. 89-90. Cited in Simon Cross, Mediating Madness: Mental Distress and Cultural Representation (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 74. Few …
Confinement | Entertainement | Insanity | Punishment | Satire
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Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]
… the Estates General and congregated itself as the revolutionary National Assembly on 17 June 1789, the Crown, looking to mediate the political situation, called a royal session for 23 June. In the session, Louis agreed to a partial acceptance … reason’ in the public sphere (Harris, Necker and the Revolution , 524). During the revolution, however, his attempts to mediate the dispute between Third Estate, the privileged orders, and the Crown, had won him favour amongst the popular … a series of problems to the National Assembly. On one level, the loss of Necker meant losing a key ally in the King’s immediate sphere of influence, with Louis now more likely to fall prey to the conservative faction at court. On another, …
Censorship | Finance | French Revolution | Public sphere | Third Estate
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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… absent, however, from the American iteration of spa sociability was the role of Master of Ceremonies. The role of a mediator in spa sociability pioneered by Beau Nash in Bath in the mid eighteenth-century, 12 was simply not to be found … when meals were served, there was no organized plan of the day or other means used in Bath to regulate sociability and mediate some of the potential tensions arising from differences in class or status. Instead, patrons formed their own …
Colonies | Cosmopolitanism | Health | Leisure | North America | Spa | Travel
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Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… had elite overtones in, for example, the writings of Lord Shaftesbury (1671-1713). However, the rise of cheaper print media, and in particular the periodical, meant that this art could now be disseminated to a wider audience that included …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… sides on a single sheet of paper. From the website: The Open Anthology of Literature in English. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Abstract In the eighteenth century, the term ‘politeness’ became a powerful, if controverted, tool for … institutions, noted by contemporaries, was the co-presence of diverse strangers. The norms of politeness were aimed at mediating differences, whether those of gender, social level, religion, politics, or geographical origin, to name a few. …
Civility | Conversation | Consumption | Periodicals
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Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… Public Sphere’; Gillian Russell, ‘”Announcing each day the performances”: Playbills, Ephemerality, and Romantic Period Media/Theater History’, Studies in Romanticism (vol. 54, n° 2, 2015), pp. 241-68. 8 . Playbills also make visible a lot … but patrons could also take along their own, sourced from one of the various theatrical periodicals which remediated and reprinted the information on playbills. Some early nineteenth-century examples include the Theatrical …
Advertisement | Audience | Collecting | Entertainement | Print culture | Theatre
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Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]
Catholicism | Churches | Dissent | Methodism | North America | Sermon
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