Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]
… of a large crowd that convivial political meetings encouraged. 11 Frequent attacks on conviviality appeared in graphic satires by Gillray such as ‘ The loyal toast ‘ , ‘ The Union Club ‘ and ‘ Anacrontick’s In Full Song’, and in parodic poems and mock-reports in publications such as The True Briton and The Anti-Jacobin. These satires often associated conviviality with both drunken excess and with radical ideas that threatened political … Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790-1850 (Oxford University Press, 1994). Gatrell, Vic, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (New York: Walker and Company, 2006). Hawley, Judith, ‘ Taste and Toasts in Early …
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