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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 … associational forms of the public sphere. Practices > Politics & Society People > Science Keywords Audience Coffeehouses Conversation Public sphere Science Scientific experiments played a significant role in the spaces of sociability that … 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 …
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Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… There was ample room, figuratively at least, for sociability, since music-making was only part of the entertainment, and conversation also took up a fair amount of time. As in the Bluestocking salons, members of the aristocracy freely mixed … footing with the men. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Art Audience Bluestockings Conversation Music Among those who visited the Sunday evening musical parties at the Burneys’ on a more or less regular … was generally two-fold: first, musical performances were enjoyed by at least some parts of the audience and afterwards conversation followed, facilitating sociability ( The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, I, xxi-xxii). In his …
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The Spectator, No. 49 (26 April 1711) [ Places ]
… for a Man who is not turned for Mirthful Meetings of Men, or Assemblies of the fair Sex, to delight in that sort of Conversation which we find in Coffee-houses. Here a Man, of my Temper, is in his Element; for if he cannot talk, he can … only an Hearer. It is a Secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the Conduct of Life, when you fall into a Man's Conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater Inclination to hear you, or that you … to Men who have Business or good Sense in their Faces, and come to the Coffee-house either to transact Affairs or enjoy Conversation. The Persons to whose Behaviour and Discourse I have most regard, are such as are between these two sorts of …
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Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… was implicated in a variety of sociable interactions. For example, larger great bills could become the subject of conversation on the city’s streets. In her memoirs, actress Charlotte Charke talks of the joy she felt 'not only in … houses, or pinned to cushions within the theatre itself. Within the sociable coffeehouse , they were catalysts for conversation regarding the latest playhouse drama, both on-stage and off. Playwrights and actors were regular patrons at …
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… in the growing pleasure the urban elite experienced in accumulating objects. The lots he attributed both fuelled polite conversation and provided the décor for sociable meetings. Auction doubled as a spectacle where people looked at unique …
Art | Audience | Collecting | Commerce | Coffeehouses | Exhibitions
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English theatre in Enlightenment France [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… de la domestic tragedy ', Littératures classiques (vol. 67, n° 3, 2008), p. 187-200. In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology On Conversation (1756) The Object of the Dramatic Composition (1757) … French playwrights of the second half of the …
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