Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… could be significant sites of sociability and even festivity, in person and in print; but they could also generate unsociability in the form of drunkenness, hostility, bitter partisanship and even violence that many commentators saw as … for it. Election entertainments thus ranged from polite sociability at one end of the spectrum, through to impolite unsociability at the other. Image Legend William Hogarth, 'An Election Entertainment, from the series known as 'The … could be significant sites of sociability and even festivity, in person and in print; but they could also generate unsociability in the form of drunkenness, hostility, bitter partisanship and even violence that many commentators saw as …
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