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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… woman, Austen took advantage of opportunities to observe the changing world around her. She resided five years in the fashionable spa town of Bath when her father retired there in 1801 and partook of the town’s public diversions, which are … 41 in 1817. 5 5 . For illness in relation to Bath sociability in Austen’s Persuasion, see Annick Cossic-Péricarpin, ‘Fashionable Diseases in Georgian Bath: Fiction and the Emergence of a British Model of Spa Sociability’, Journal for …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… debates to those bent on self-improvement and/or proud of their civic capacity; they also offered lighter subjects on fashion or gossip for those seeking entertainment. An additional attraction was that the debating societies offered …
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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… being touched, and once in someone’s hands there is the problem of hands being kissed or worse. These various men of fashion are one thing, but Burney ’s Diary raises wider questions about who has any claim to touch or kiss her. When she …
Conduct | Conventions | Dance | Gender | Kissing | Propriety | Touch
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… purpose,’ serving effectively as a mechanism for the dissemination of licentiousness via the influence of ‘custom, fashion and example.’ Sociability in this sense required tempering by a ‘firmness in mind,’ which was reinforced by …
Britishness | Commerce | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Gender | Moral philosophy | Manners | Politeness | Public sphere
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