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Duelling [ Politics & Society ]

… Abstract Duelling was not simply an English affair, but also a social practice indulged in and debated throughout Europe. … > Politics & Society Keywords masculinity disorder antagonism honour Religion law aristocracy Gentleman honour Spectator Duelling was not simply an English affair, but also a social practice indulged in and debated throughout Europe. … report of the whole combat’. They would secure weapons, transportation, and medical assistance; they would discuss duelling procedures and would attend the duel to make sure that only honourable conduct would occur. 4 In effect, this …

Gambling [ Games & Sports ]

… of sociability but was denounced as anti-social. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords Gaming Cards Dice Gentleman Clubs Duelling Suicide Vice Charles James Fox Duchess of Devonshire From the Restoration to the first decade of the Victorian … his rank and acquire social prestige. 16 . On honour, see for instance Donna Andrew, Aristocratic Vices. The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), chapter … gaming and other immoderate pleasures as direct consequences of the English melancholy, the connection between gambling, duelling and suicide was made explicit from the middle of the eighteenth century: 24 'gaming is one of the principal …

Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]

… Keywords London Theatres The Literary Club Brooks's Club British political circles Anglo-Irish identity Clubbability Duelling Edmund Burke Charles James Fox Lord Byron Richard Brinsley Sheridan was part of the late eighteenth-century … London Theatres … The Literary Club … Brooks's Club … British political circles … Anglo-Irish identity … Clubbability … Duelling … Edmund Burke … Charles James Fox … Lord Byron … Richard Brinsley Sheridan …

Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]

… whose Conversation is so pleasant as that of military Men’. 2  The military had its own codes of sociability, including duelling when an affront was offered – a practice in which he once engaged and of which he then became a vocal critic. 3 …

William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]

… See, for instance, William Gilpin, Dialogues on Various Subjects (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807) p. 217-252 (‘On duelling’) and Bodleian Library, Ms. Eng. Misc. d. 569, fol. 210, letter to his son William, 22 March 1796: ‘I began lately a little dialogue on duelling’. Also see Ms. Eng. Misc. e. 518, fol. 73 and fol. 77. A philanthropist and a clergyman imagining sociability in …

Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]

… be contrasted with the drunken homosocial antics of the elite Hellfire Club or the hot-headed settlement of disputes by duelling. 7 . Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1774, pp. 319-23. Middling-sort gentlemanly qualities were also increasingly …