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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… E. Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness: Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 76-80. Shaftesbury even erected a so-called … (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2000), p. 61-78. Klein, Lawrence E., 'The Figure of France: The Politics of Sociability in England, 1660-1715', Yale French Studies (vol. 92, 1997), p. 30-45. Lobis, Seth, ‘ `Moral Magic´: Cambridge Platonism … and the Third Earl of Shaftesbury ’ , The Virtue of Sympathy: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015), p. 198-255. Müller, Patrick (ed.), New Ages, New Opinions: …
Affection | Catholicism | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Manners | Politeness | Whigs | Wit
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Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… it assesses their influence and impact on both the Scottish Enlightenment and the evolution of Scotland’s relation with England during the first century of the British Union. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture … century and thanks, among others, to Sir Walter Scott’s defense of the idea of a complementarity between Scotland and England for the benefit of Great Britain , public opinion accepted the idea of a Scottish cultural specificity compatible … eat national dishes such as haggis and drink whisky during dedicated ceremonies. The same was actually also true in England with the Beefsteak Club , for instance. In both cases, the idea was either to mock the nationalist exaggerations …
Britishness | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland
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Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… most were Episcopalian, but the association of some of them to the Jacobite cause generalised the idea, especially in England, that they were all Catholics. The Catholic community had connections with the continent that fostered … anti-union supporters, even though this was true for only a minority. Letters and reports circulating in Scotland and England denounced the rebellious character of the Highlanders. Highlanders were keen to show their ‘loyalty’, even though … Monarchy, since they supported the direct heirs of their first common king, James VI of Scotland and I of England (1567/1603-1625). 5 Such views were challenged by unionists who saw loyalty to the Hanoverians as of paramount …
Clans | Clubs | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland | Tradition
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Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… of the influence of the Irish Enlightenment on London social circles and Anglo-Irish societies, theatres and clubs in England and Ireland. His success on the British stage (Bristol, Bath and London) and later in life on the Irish stage (in … and in newspaper reports. His public image was tainted by the past he had fought to erase, his Irishness associated in England with poverty, criminal violence (the murder of Thomas Hallam) and a tendency to squabbles whereas Garrick, using …
Anglo-Irishness | Charity | Debate | Enlightenment | Ireland | Theatre
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