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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
France | Marronage | North America | Slavery | Theatre | Women
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Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… for a progressively more rigid separation of gender roles (and apt spaces for such roles), Todd argues that female communities ‘nudge women into development, where marriage can only bewilder or become a too sudden closing of the gulf … as both narratives challenge hetero-patriarchal conventions and explore female subjectivity by imagining women-centred communities. 7 Indeed, the life choices of Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Elizabeth Butler, the Ladies of Llangollen, or those … a listening ear to their discontents. However, as Catherine Ingrassia contends, the dominant philosophy behind female communities often tended to perpetuate ‘the shared reinforcement of behavioural norms’ 11 and observance of patriarchal …
Conflict | Friendship | Gender | Sex | Women
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Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… alive and well during the Renaissance. 1 In an early explicit reference to this community in the emerging scholarly communities of Renaissance Italy, Francesco Barbaro uses the phrase ‘this Republic of Letters’ or ‘huic litteraria … transition from a ‘ humanist model of Latin men of letters to a more socially diffuse model of learned and vernacular communities of men and women writing, traveling, reading, and publishing’ ( Edelstein et al. 413) . Increased travel …
Academies | Censorship | Community | Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Networks | Republic of Letters
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… intellectuals, a certain parity of the educated’. 7 As such, auction rooms seem to have proved very beneficial to communities of specialist knowledge, such as antiquarians and book collectors. This sociability of connoisseurs who often … Thomas Burger (Cambridge, Mass: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991), p. 32. The auction house provided these communities with sociable space, by also maintaining and redistributing their cultural identities from sale to sale. The …
Art | Audience | Collecting | Commerce | Coffeehouses | Exhibitions
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Borsay noted that, between 1660 and 1770, sixty-five spa and market towns funded and built assembly rooms for their communities, based on newspapers and assembly room records (151, 336-49). The germination of assembly rooms maps onto the …
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
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William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… Ballads give expression to his social awareness, with a number of poems exposing the devastating effects on rural communities of enclosure and the Poor Laws. His attitude towards the lower classes reveals that his sympathy for the most …
Correspondence | Domesticity | French Revolution | Politics | Solitude
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John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
Debate | Eloquence | French Revolution | Poetry | Public sphere
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Social Network Analysis [ Social interaction ]
… Letters , they must ultimately concede that network analysis tools cannot uncover them and that digital studies of these communities will only become possible once their contours are understood in analog archives ( Hotson and Wallnig 31) . … or exchanges that we did not previously know about. What network analysis can do is provide new insight into known communities. By taking the step into abstract representation, we can sometimes see the network and its most important …
Correspondence | Digital Humanities | Networks
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