Contributeurs

Eighteenth-century British social and cultural history; British clubs and societies; cultural transfers; elites and networks; British Atlantic sociabilities.

English social and political history in the long eighteenth century; esp. interplay of gender and politics; eighteenth-century British electoral history

Littérature française du XVIIIe siècle; correspondances et secrétaires du XVIIIe siècle; écriture et éducation féminines au XVIIIe siècle; Mme Riccoboni; écriture romanesque au XVIIIe siècle.
 

Cultural history of the eighteenth-century, France and Britain; issues related to genre, language, education, sociability and conversation.

Histoire de la performance du « corps-statue » (attitudes, tableaux vivants et autres) du 18e siècle à aujourd’hui; histoire de l’imprimé, et plus particulièrement de la caricature et de la satire graphique; les questions de censure, d’autocensure, du pouvoir de la caricature et des limites du caricaturable.

The social history of prisoners of war in Britain, France and the Caribbean during the long eighteenth century

Enlightenment; eighteenth-century satire; spa culture; Bath; history of medicine; sociability.

History of early modern Britain and Europe.

Littérature française des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles

Roman anglais au XVIIIe siècle; roman épistolaire; épistolarité; écriture du corps; liens entre écriture romanesque et médecine; histoire des idées au XVIIIème siècle; histoire des idées médicales.

British Romanticism; science & poetry; poetry of William Blake and Erasmus Darwin,

The history of humour and laughter; histories of print culture; sociability, gender, race and public politics; the ‘civilising process’ and rise of politeness; the development of a ‘public sphere’ of sociability and political debate; the figure of Edward ‘Ned’ Ward (1666-1731); women and intoxicants.