Search
Refine your search
Filter by keyword
Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… their everyday lives. How much time an individual was expected to spend alone and in company remained a matter of much debate and controversy throughout this period. Those who chose to devote (or advocate) lengthy periods of time in … flout the moral codes and good manners that lay at the heart of sociability. Exploring how solitude was experienced and debated challenges our understanding of the benefits of sociability from this period. 1 . Spectator 10, 12 March 1711. In …
Conversation | Emotions | Gender | Melancholy | Politeness | Privacy | Religion
Encyclopedia
The Spectator, No. 433 (17 July 17 1712) [ Concepts ]
Politeness | Conversation | Periodicals
Anthology
Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… Correspondence Friendship Women The fourth child of nine surviving siblings, Elizabeth Robinson grew up in a debate-loving, literary household. Her parents, Matthew Robinson and Elizabeth Drake Robinson, were well connected among … traits cherished by the various members of the bluestocking salons. 2 Each salonnière had her own method to initiate debates: Montagu seated her guests in a circle and took the lead herself. Up until her husband’s death in 1775, Montagu’s …
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Friendship | Women
Encyclopedia
On Conversation (1782) [ Concepts ]
… there are, And make colloquial happiness your care, Preserve me from the thing I dread and hate, A duel in the form of a debate. The clash of arguments and jar of words, Worse than the mortal brunt of rival swords, Decide no question with …
Conversation | Crime
Anthology
Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… women took part in polite sociability, in the company of men and women, for the purpose of conversation, gossip and debate. What was distinctive about the tea-table as a model of sociability in the period 1688-1750 was that sociable … innovative gesture. The association with the domestic culture of women, however, also meant that this conversation and debate were repeatedly scapegoated as ephemeral, vulgar, and scandalous: nothing better than gossip. 5 5 . Max Gluckman, …
Conversation | Domesticity | Exoticism | Furniture | Gossip | Politeness | Public sphere | Tea | Tea-table
Encyclopedia
Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… Comedy (London: W. Griffin, 1769). Due to the links between ‘cant’ and hypocrisy, the notion played an important role in debates about sincerity, sensibility and authenticity in social interactions during the long eighteenth century. Ideal …
Controversy | Conversation | Hypocrisy | Rhetoric
Encyclopedia
Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… but the principles that underlay and structured them: the social and intellectual principles of reciprocity, equality, debate, and exchange ( Goodman 349-350). The informal, easy-going implementation of these principles was certainly a …
Art | Audience | Bluestockings | Conversation | Music
Encyclopedia