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… The Grand Tour was a formative rite of passage that was intended to finish an elite young man’s education and form his identity as a member of Britain’s ruling class. While the Grand Tour has typically been understood within an Anglophone … 1775, to William Legge, 3rd earl of Dartmouth. 18 . Jason M. Kelly, The Society of the Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment (New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 17-18. Share … Geography, 1600-1830 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999). Cohen, Michèle, Fashioning Masculinity: National identity and language in the eighteenth century (London: Routledge, 1996). ____________‘The Grand Tour: Constructing 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 negotiable nature of the category of person, which was part of the contemporary philosophical debate on identity, most notably the works of John Locke, who wrote about the changing states of consciousness, and David Hume , …

… relied in its performativity, eliciting social interactions, enacting the memory of loved ones and shaping the identity of fashionable individuals in tangible and material rituals of sociability. Share Partager sur Facebook Partager … and American Snuffboxes, 1730-1830 (New York: The Viking Press, 1966). McShane, Angela. ‘Belonging and Belongings: Identity, Emotion and Memory stored in a Tobacco Box’, in Dagmar Freist, Sabine Kyora and Melanie Unseld (ed.),  … and American Snuffboxes, 1730-1830 (New York: The Viking Press, 1966). McShane, Angela. ‘Belonging and Belongings: Identity, Emotion and Memory stored in a Tobacco Box’, in Dagmar Freist, Sabine Kyora and Melanie Unseld (ed.),  …

… is corroborated by Miles Ogborn’s contention in Spaces of Modernity that some eighteenth-century places were sites of identity formation. 29 25 . Haydn wrote in his notebook that ‘Bath was one of the most beautiful cities in Europe’. See … Books, 2005). Herbert, Amanda, ‘Hot Spring Sociability: Women’s Alliances at British Spas,’  Female Alliances, Gender, Identity and Friendship in Early Modern Britain (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 117-142. Poole, … Books, 2005). Herbert, Amanda, ‘Hot Spring Sociability: Women’s Alliances at British Spas,’  Female Alliances, Gender, Identity and Friendship in Early Modern Britain (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 117-142. Poole, …

… Sporting Cultures (1650-1850) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018). Whale, John, ‘Daniel Mendoza’s Contests of Identity: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Nation in Georgian Prize-fighting’, Romanticism (vol. 14, n° 3, 2008), p. 259-271. … Sporting Cultures (1650-1850) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018). Whale, John, ‘Daniel Mendoza’s Contests of Identity: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Nation in Georgian Prize-fighting’, Romanticism (vol. 14, n° 3, 2008), p. 259-271. … …

… 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 …