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Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]

… Abstract The Republic of Letters was an abstract intellectual community in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century that was comprised of numerous networks throughout Europe and the … cultures Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Republic of Letters Correspondence networks academies Transnational Community Voltaire The Republic of Letters was both an abstract ideal of a cosmopolitan, egalitarian community of scholars, and a very real, virtual community comprised of numerous networks throughout Europe and the …

Henry Oldenburg (and the Philosophical Transactions) [ Science ]

… technology. Oldenburg and the journal he created were central to the development of a social scientific international community during this period. People > Science Keywords Correspondence Oldenburg Philosophical Transactions Royal Society Scientific community In the late seventeenth century, scientists, or ‘ natural philosophers ‘  as they were then known, formed two … technology. Oldenburg and the journal he created were central to the development of a social scientific international community during this period. … Correspondence … Oldenburg … Philosophical Transactions … Royal Society … Scientific …

Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]

… People > Science People > Art and Literature People > Philosophy Keywords Darwin Lunar society Correspondence Scientific community Half a century before Charles Darwin published his essay On the Origin of Species in 1851, his grandfather … grows, individuals become increasingly sensitive to their own affections and receptive to the others’, which creates a community of sensation beyond the strict limit of the parent-child relationship. Darwin used the image of the social … of sociability as it is defined by Darwin: it is the refusal to sympathize with fellow-humans and share the community of affects which binds them together. ‘Am I not a man and a brother?’ says the slave on the famous medallion …

Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]

… of collective taste. Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Dramatic art Worldliness Connivance Entertainement Taste Community Performing plays in one’s home was not specific to the eighteenth century, but it is during this period that … La Parade de société, une forme dramatique oubliée (Paris: Champion, 2015), p. 519. What mattered most was the idea of community: the sharing of tears and laughter where, for the length of a performance, all social differences were … connivance in the constitution of collective taste. … Dramatic art … Worldliness … Connivance … Entertainement … Taste … Community … Private theatre performances …

Melancholy [ Feelings & Emotions ]

… Churchyard . Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Keywords Futility Despair Self-indulgence Self-doubt Salvation Solitude Community In almost every way, melancholy was always the very antithesis of sociability. The melancholy individual sought … as Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard . … Futility … Despair … Self-indulgence … Self-doubt … Salvation … Solitude … Community … Melancholy …

Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]

… number over the course of the ‘century’. Assembly rooms across Great Britain became the physical and social heart of the community, places where men and women could meet to converse, dance, and attend lectures and concerts. Despite being … Inns were constructed with rooms specifically designed for large gatherings and dancing, an ideal place for the local community to gather. The 1838 advertisement for the sale of Whitby’s Angel Inn promoted the spaciousness of the building … image and gentrification of a town, becoming the heart of civic life and citizenship and physical manifestations of the community in bricks and mortar. 3 . John Macky, A Journey through England in Familiar Letters from a Gentleman Here, to …