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Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]
… [accessed 25 February 2020]). 2 . Ian Newman, The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), p. 24 and 239, n. 61. 3 . See the List of Toasts used at the … joke book. Towards the end of the century, however, political songsters became increasingly common, especially after the French Revolution, and collections of political songs and toasts were published to promote political causes, both radical and …
Community | Conviviality | Hilarity | Politics | Song | Toasting
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Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
… and the Holy Roman Empire, the Enlightenment featured the rise of new forms of sociability. Ahead of the Industrial Revolution, the appearance of the bourgeois orders soon became the cornerstone of an informative sensitivity founded on … British Politics, 1750 to the Present (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001). Before the outbreak of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke dwelt on the idea of a ‘general opinion’ stemming from private reflection on public … Valérie Capdeville and Alain Kerhevé (eds.), British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century: Challenging the Anglo-French Connection (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019), p. 237-250. 7 . Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780-1950 …
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William Godwin (and his diary) [ Philosophy / Politics / Political & Moral philosophy / Feelings & Emotions / Diaries & Letters ]
Conventions | Correspondence | Diaries | Friendship | Politics | Radicalism
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Celebrity [ Publicity ]
… The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History (New York: Vintage, 1997). 6 . Brian Cowan, ‘Histories of Celebrity in Post-Revolutionary England’, Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung Supplement (vol. 32, 2019), p. 83-98, here … of Life Writing, Vol. 2: Early Modern (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). 9 . Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983). 10 . Shearer West, Portraiture (Oxford: … modern forms of fame that we associate with celebrity. Monarchy did not fade away in the eighteenth century. Even the French Revolution was replaced with a Napoleonic empire and ultimately a Bourbon Restoration; in Britain, the Georgian …
Celebrity | Fame | News | Politics | Self
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Notebook writing (and Romanticism) [ Diaries & Letters / Reading & Writing ]
Conflict | Conversation | Diaries | Notebook | Romanticism
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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
Colonies | Gambling | Gaming | Horseracing | Rules | Sports
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… 3 vols. (Birmingham: Thomas Pearson, 1790), 1, p. xix. In the 1790s, political tensions following the outbreak of the French Revolution began to impinge on the public culture of science in Britain. The government suspected debating and discussion … relations surrounding public experimentation. It seems telling that several commentators likened them to the fervor of revolutionary political change, which threatened to spread through society with equally dramatic results. Priestley and …
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… on this occasion exasperated her. However, a trip to France the next year was quite a success, and introduced her to the French salonnière, Mme du Boccage, and her circle, as well as to French theatre and French art (Franklin 80-82). 5 4 . For her connections with Elizabeth Montagu, see McCarthy, op. cit., … and the 1790s and early 1800s would see her an active pamphleteer in the cause of the British Crown against the French Revolution and the threat of a Napoleonic invasion. To her contemporaries, Hester Thrale Piozzi was an intelligent, …
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