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French epistolary novel [ Literary & Artistic genres / Reading & Writing ]
… Abstract Profitant du phénomène éditorial que sont les secrétaires, liée aussi bien à la société de la conversation, dont la lettre est un prolongement et un succédané, qu’à la vogue des correspondances célèbres qui … nouvel ordre social. Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Letter Letter-writing Conversation Epistolary novel Richardson Montesquieu Rousseau Laclos Le roman épistolaire est l’une des formes … les plus accomplies qu’assume la sociabilité française du XVIII e siècle qui s’identifie principalement avec la conversation, rite central de l’art de vivre en société 1 et expression de l’idéal de l’honnêteté. ‘Genre amphibie, la …Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]
… started to offer a new mode of portraiture expressive of this culture. After a tentative start in the 1720s, the ‘conversation piece’ took off around 1730, thanks to artists such as William Hogarth, Gawen Hamilton, and Charles Philips. … flourished in early eighteenth-century Britain, so a new mode of portraiture was developed to encapsulate them: the conversation piece. 1 Whilst this category became more capacious as the century progressed, and key characteristics of … of sociability from the period. 1 . This DIGIT.EN.S entry draws on material from my book. Kate Retford, The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017). …Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… Johnson was one of the foremost and most controversial literary men of his age, and a leading figure of intellectual and conversational life in London. He loved the activities of intelligent society, and was instrumental in forming clubs for … of intelligent women and had several long-standing and loyal female friends. People > Art and Literature Keywords Conversation Clubs Intellect Fame London Gender Depression Unkempt, ungainly, uncouth, with appallingly gluttonous table manners, aggressively loud, rude and argumentative, a conversational bully, perpetually racked by bodily tics and compulsions, blind in one eye, hard of hearing, and his face …Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… societies, and public lectures. They conveyed natural knowledge through shared aesthetic experiences; they also elicited conversation and facilitated new forms of sociability. At the beginning of the era, William Whiston and others showed … science chemistry electricity mechanics public lecture association Meeting Society Coffeehouses Public sphere Conversation Scientific experiments played a significant role in the spaces of sociability that characterized British … clubs, assembly rooms, coffeehouses, and taverns. Experiments occurred in settings of social interaction and conversation; they were performed as part of educational curricula and in public lectures offered to paying audiences. As …Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… encounter, including both men and women, occasioned by the consumption of tea, and typically characterized as focused on conversation and gossip. Objects > Furniture & Interior decoration Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Practices > Eating & Drinking Keywords Tea Tea-table Polite sociability Public sphere Domesticity Conversation Gossip The tea-table is an object, an event, and an idea: that is to say, it is at once an item of … tea-table’ increasingly referred not only to the piece of furniture, but also the company assembled at tea, the kind of conversation established there, and the social gathering in general. Tea-table as idea The tea-table as an idea is …Pagination
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