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Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]

… > Spirituality Practices > Associational culture Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Methodism Field-preaching Sermons John Wesley George Whitefield Enthusiasm The development of Methodism in Britain and in colonial America from the 1730s onward brought a redefinition of religious sociability along with theological and liturgical innovations. John Wesley and George Whitefield , who can be considered as the leading figures of the movement throughout the …

Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]

… connection of social interactions. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Keywords Commodity Bodies Theatre Dancers Ballyhoo John Weaver Marie Sallé Jean-Georges Noverre Drury Lane ballerina gentleman patron Arising out of the French court, the … French ballet’s decadence and required their own version of the art form. The English choreographer and dancing master, John Weaver, was a catalyst for this acceptance and progression, timed with London’s blossoming as a metropolis. Weaver … 1972), p. 37. 8 . Lynn Garafola (ed.), Rethinking the Sylph New Perspectives on the Romantic Ballet (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1997), p. 17. Although Christian concepts of womanhood prevailed, stylish London ladies were …

Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]

… From 1731, the widow Pendarves, desirous to take her distance from England and her many suitors there among whom Charles Wesley, left for Ireland where she attended several literary salons: 'I have just began an acquaintance among the wits – … spent some time with Jonathan Swift at his friend and biographer’s, Patrick Delany. At the time, following Hesther Johnson (Stella)’s death, the Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral was often surrounded by Frances Kelly, John Boyle, fifth Earl of Orrery, the Donnellans and the actor Thomas Sheridan. The young Mary Pendarves accounts for her …

Beau Nash [ Fashion ]

… 2 . William Oliver, A Faint Sketch of the Life, Character, and Manners, of the Late Mr Nash (Bath, 1761), p. 4-5. 3 . John Poulter, The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter, 1753, ed. Ivan Volkoff (Los Angeles: Advertisers Composition Company, 1962). A man of many … deserted by his friends, mocked by the witty, and contested by the virtuous and the proponents of evangelism like John Wesley: ‘ The statue placed, the busts between, Adds to the satire strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at …

Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]

… a playwright that enabled her to strike a lifelong friendship with David Garrick and his wife Eva and to lionize Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole. What has been called ‘the Complicated Temptation of the theatre’ 2   reveals a tension at the … was thus a strategy to broaden the scope of her venture and her social connections were an asset, a view shared by John Wesley: 'Tell her to live in the world; there is the sphere of her usefulness.' (Jones 103) Nonetheless she seemed …

Celebrity [ Publicity ]

… famous churchmen such as Sacheverell and Hoadly, there were founders of new religious movements such as the Methodist John Wesley or the Unitarian Joseph Priestley. The clergyman John Henley became known as ‘Orator Henley’ due to his popular and theatrical style of preaching. 18 Celebrity was an …