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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… Life , Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator (Boston: Bedford, 1998). Markman, Ellis, ‘Sociability and polite Improvement in Addison’s Periodicals’ in Davis, Paul (ed.), Joseph Addison , Tercentenary Essays (Oxford: Oxford … Life , Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator (Boston: Bedford, 1998). Markman, Ellis, ‘Sociability and polite Improvement in Addison’s Periodicals’ in Davis, Paul (ed.), Joseph Addison , Tercentenary Essays (Oxford: Oxford …
Commerce | Correspondence | Femininity | Periodicals | Politics | Women
Encyclopedia
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland [ Clubs & Societies ]
… Innes and the Defence of Scotland’s Past c. 1825–1875 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014). McElroy, Davis Dunbar, Scotland’s Age of Improvement: A Survey of Eighteenth-Century Literary Clubs and Societies (Washington: Washington State University Press, … Innes and the Defence of Scotland’s Past c. 1825–1875 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014). McElroy, Davis Dunbar, Scotland’s Age of Improvement: A Survey of Eighteenth-Century Literary Clubs and Societies (Washington: Washington State University Press, …
Collecting | Fellowship | Learned society | Museums | National Character | Scotland
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On Conversation (1793) [ Concepts ]
… are rendered somewhat less oppressive, this affords no reason against the setting afloat so generous a system. The improvement of individuals and the melioration of political institutions are destined mutually to produce and reproduce … truth, is not hard of acquisition, but from the superciliousness of its professors. It has been slow and tedious of improvement, because the study of it has been relegated to doctors and civilians. It has produced little effect upon the … and candid circles of enquiring men be swallowed up in the insatiate gulf of noisy assemblies, the opportunity of improvement is instantly {216} annihilated. The happy varieties of sentiment which so eminently contribute to …
Conversation
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Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… conversable world, encompassing controversy and collision of mind as well as harmony. Defined as a means of individual improvement and self-fashioning, conversation also aimed to develop not just knowledge but the mind and critical … controversy and collision of mind as well as harmony. 4 Integral to sociability and politeness and a means of individual improvement and self-fashioning, conversation had to be instructive as well as entertaining. Contemporaries had much to … being struck out, that would, in some degree enlighten and improve the mind'. 5 This mix of entertainment and ‘improvement’, hailed by David Hume as the felicitous joining of the ‘Learned’ with the ‘Conversible World’, made it …
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Of Refinement in the Arts (1777) [ Concepts ]
Commerce | Refinement | Luxury | Charity | Corruption | Democracy | Disorder | Happiness
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The Spectator, No. 454 (11 August 1712) [ Places / Transport ]
… drawing any worldly Advantage to themselves from them, but just as they are what contribute to their Amusement, or the Improvement of the Mind. I lay one Night last Week at Richmond ; and being restless, not out of Dissatisfaction, but a …
Streets
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Pickwick Papers (1836-37) [ Places ]
… old inns, which have preserved their external features unchanged, and which have escaped alike the rage for public improvement and the encroachments of private speculation. Great, rambling queer old places they are, with galleries, and …
Inn
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Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… and public-spirit.—I wonder how they stumbled upon a work of such magnificence and utility. But, notwithstanding these improvements, the capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and …
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