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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Abstract Pleasure gardens were a type of eighteenth-century public spaces which offered diverse forms of entertainment for their … significance of culturally conditioned notions such as taste, fashion or visibility. Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Pleasure visuality entertainment Vauxhall Ranelagh Gardens Pleasure gardens were a particular type of eighteenth-century sociable spaces. Usually privately-owned, these enclosed …

Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Abstract Vauxhall was one of the major pleasure gardens in London from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. Its architecture and … types of sociability. With cultural entertainments such as concerts and exhibitions of paintings, it made polite pleasures a part of sociability. The activities it offered ranged from collective entertainment, such as a music kiosk to … grove for visitors entertaining a small group of their own social circle.   Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Vauxhall Pleasure gardens visuality Sociability Entertainement Vauxhall pleasure garden was one of the public outdoor places of …

Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Abstract Ranelagh was one of London’s pleasure gardens, a typical eighteenth-century locus of sociability, which offered a mixture of social classes – suitably … in the Rotunda which housed an orchestra. This created shared cultural references. Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Pleasure gardens Politeness Luxury Spectacle Entertainement Masquerade Exoticism Visual culture Ranelagh was one of the ‘pleasure gardens’, places of entertainment which flourished in the eighteenth century, where, for an entrance fee, the …

West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]

… could regulate entry to high society. Places > Cities Places > Institutions Keywords Consumption Opera Clublife Pleasure Gambling Gender Sexuality ‘The West End of the Town‘ (as it was usually known in the long eighteenth century) … that we associate with the urban renaissance. The area of London from the Strand over to St James's became an embryonic pleasure district, distinctive for locations that served the leisure and retail needs of the elite. This allowed the … institutions often produced dining clubs where men could enjoy a spirit of conviviality. 6 . Maxine Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 207. 7 . Jonathan Harris, ‘The Grecian …

Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]

… > Character Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Conviviality Toasting Speech-making Song Mirth Hilarity Mutuality Pleasure Conviviality was a term used to describe a particular form of masculine sociable gathering that developed in the … was thus on shared values, and already agreed upon opinions, which were expressed in a previously determined manner. The pleasure of convivial meetings was less the encounter with new and challenging ideas, than the pleasure of hearing one’s views accepted and reflected back by others (Newman 202-230, chapter on ‘Toasting’ ). 4 . Jon …

James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]

… Johnson. He enjoyed, too, the company of intelligent upper-class women in terms of sociability rather than for sexual pleasure. He was a depressive, often connected to his excessive drinking, which placed a limit on his capacity for … not helped by this insistence that he study law and enter the legal profession. He found some alleviation in the pleasures of the Edinburgh cultural scene, including the theatre, alcohol and an affair with an actress. These, and … when enjoying the society of his fellow beings, including intelligent or instructive or amusing conversation, the sheer pleasure of being with a person or people for whom he felt affection or respect, and flirting. Boswell’s taste in women …