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Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… to them into the context of a club-like structure, thereby creating a curious case of asocial sociability. The inflamed public imagination thus provides an insight not only into the ways a nearly unregulated press could politicize such an … on an organized, debauched, and altogether darker twin of polite society. Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Concepts > Publicity Keywords Clans Gentleman Masculinity Rake Violence Historians have pondered the concomitant if not paradoxical … facet of eighteenth-century rakishness, and how even the anxiety surrounding amoral and anti-social behavior is, in the public mind, ultimately framed through sociable codes such as organized club meetings and initiation rituals, providing a …
Clans | Gentleman | Masculinity | Rake | Violence
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Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]
… Fellows at meetings would behave as participants in the making of experimental knowledge by acting as an ‘experimental public’ who needed to confirm empirical findings for them to be considered ‘matters of fact’. This was what Steven Shapin … of experimental knowledge’ which passed through three phases: the initial, private ‘trying’ of an experiment; the public ‘showing’ of an experiment and the public ‘discoursing’ upon the experiment. 10 The public dimensions of this process, however, are largely contested, for …
Civility | Cosmopolitanism | Fellowship | France | Gentleman | Science
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… the end of the century that the numbers of challengers being taken to court increased significantly, perhaps because the public finally believed that duelling was not the most desirable way of settling a dispute (Andrew 71). 12 12 . See also : ‘[…] by the end of the Napoleonic wars, again thanks to the publicity afforded by press coverage, more and more of even such men were using the Law, the magistracy, and the courts, …
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Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… almost as 'unequivocally as language would do'. 16 Women’s conversation and opinions now had to be ‘ domestic, not public’. 17 However, their conversational skills could be deployed in educating children. 15 . James Fordyce, Sermons to …
Children | Controversy | Gentleman | Masculinity | Politeness | Science | Women
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