Search

Social Network Analysis [ Social interaction ]

… Abstract Social network analysis is an interdisciplinary digital humanities approach aimed at understanding how people are connected to one another. Digital tools have revolutionized access to archival materials. Network analysis tools enable historians to process historical metadata and generate increasingly large visualizations of …

Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]

… facilitating encounters between individuals belonging to different strata of society. With the advent of the railway network in the nineteenth century, they began to decline. Places > Residences & Lodgings Keywords drinking Travel Class … the Tavern: Public Houses in Early Modern Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002, p. 205-226), p. 205. 2 . For a more detailed analysis of the Tabard, see Steven Earnshaw, The Pub in English Literature: England's Altered State (Manchester: … for coaches. At a time when traffic on the roads was increasing, they were an important part of the transportation network. Horses were changed at inns and goods were unloaded, while travellers boarded or left the coaches. Larger inns …

Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]

… Secondly, the Scottish Enlightenment unprecedentedly contributed to theorising sociability not only through systematic analysis of human social nature, but also writing philosophical or ‘conjectural’ histories of the development of human … shift from the old court and aristocratic society of the seventeenth century towards a bourgeois ‘public sphere’: the networks of improvement linking the university with the church, legal profession and mercantile elites remained traditional in many ways, and there continued to exist powerful networks of aristocratic patronage linking Edinburgh to the worlds of London and the wider empire throughout the …

William Blake [ Art and Literature ]

… to Richard Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain (1786) and possibly to Jacob Byrant’s A New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology (1774-76). After completing his seven-year apprenticeship in 1779, he enrolled at the Royal … Stothard (1755-1834) as well as the sculptor John Flaxman (1756-1826). Blake was an avid collector of prints; his early networks existed through print shops and auction rooms. On his father’s death in 1784, his older brother James took over … references are to volume one of Gilchrist’s biography. In the 1780s Blake developed his writing and, again, his social networks tie into his projects. Poetical Sketches (1783), a collection of juvenilia and only work to appear in …

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

… See ODNB, S.J. Skedd (https://doi.org/10.1093/ref: odnb/19179 [accessed 18 February 2020]). Also E. Kowaleski-Wallace’s analysis of ‘literary daughters (as) special kinds of daughters who adapt themselves to both a familial and literary … 6 Her somewhat forced spinsterhood made her free, thanks to her recent financial independence, to set up her own social network and she used her London celebrity to create an original model of sociability that was essentially philanthropic. … The success of the Cheap Repository Tracts in particular was unrivalled, thus enabling her to create another, wider, network, made up of readers – she had identified ‘three great classes, the fashionable, the religious, the political’ ( …

Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]