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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]

… of Locke and Hume. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Masquerade mask personal identity Haymarket John James Heidegger Theresa Cornelys Henry Fielding William Hogarth In eighteenth-century London, the … at 10 shillings – it offered a space of carnivalesque class disorder and transgression prompted by anonymity and identity play, even if the lower orders needed more affluent patrons to guarantee entrance (as can be seen, for example, …   In listing the participants, the quoted passage nods towards another crucial aspect of eighteenth-century masquerades: identity play. The names given to the disguised participants – Nobody, Somebody and A Double Man – underline the …

Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]

… new communities. Places > Health Places > Nature Keywords Health Open society Master of Ceremonies Spa doctor regulation Identity celebrity Spa Spa sociability is very often considered as a paradigm of an ‘open society.’ Openness for Neil … Ute Lotz-Heumann, The German Spa in the Long Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge, 2022), p. 249. The spa as a place of identity formation: the birth of a new self? The overall context of innovation was bound to affect the self who was … of women in the promotion of political and humanitarian causes. If Bath, like other spas, was ‘a site of feminine identity creation’ a place where ‘female alliances were enriched,’ 22   for men too, albeit differently, it could be …

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

… People > 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 … club’, 1793, © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1868,0808.6282. Sheridan belonged to a family proud of their Irish identity and yet struggling between British and Irish loyalties for Robert Jones. 8  His father Thomas Sheridan, the … 'Whig fraternity'. … 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 …

Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]

… rebellion. Concepts > Social interaction People > Association Keywords Clans Highlands Union Tartan Scottish society Identity Scottish Enlightenment Clubs and Societies Scotland Tradition In the eighteenth century, Scottish society was … Societies perhaps more than any other force, made the dress and culture of Highlandism the universally recognized identity of Scotland and even the most identifiable image of Britain’ (McElroy 154). The Highland societies thus played … context of the Union of 1707 and of the Jacobite rebellion. … Clans … Highlands … Union … Tartan … Scottish society … Identity … Scottish Enlightenment … Clubs and Societies … Scotland … Tradition … Scottish clans …

Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]

… identities through his writings and his engagement with his readers. He was known as a ‘scribbler’ and his public identity was that of a controversial and prolific author. In this way, Defoe’s style of social networking is closer to … be weak rather than strong. 2   Perhaps more than just about any other of his contemporaries, Defoe crafted his social identity through print rather than through personal connections. Defoe was known to his contemporaries almost exclusively as a ‘scribbler’, and he revelled in the possibilities for virtual self fashioning afforded by crafting an identity through printed words on the page rather than as a flesh and blood human being who could be identified, and …