… and economic writing produced in eighteenth-century Scotland. The issue of sociability was far more than a technical debate in moral philosophy, or a binary controversy about the primacy of selfishness or sociability in human nature. As … increasingly thought of as the history of civil society? These controversies played out across a wide-ranging Scottish debate about the question of human natural sociability that cut across otherwise shared commitments and positions. The … ’ – in promoting social cohesion. Ferguson ’s contribution represents one of the most distinctive contributions to the debate for its emphasis on the role of energy, enthusiasm, and imagination in kindling the sociable bonds within society. …
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… the exotic appears to be a topic of good-humoured conversation which reflected and shaped broader economic and political debates. In his famous essay on the Royal Exchange in the Spectator n° 69, dated 19 May 1711, Addison describes the … and news appears to be the most highly social phenomenon of the Enlightenment. By melting private individuals and public debates, the coffeehouse was a blended space mixing up properties and categories of eighteenth-century sociability. The …
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… . Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, ed. G.A. Starr and Linda Bree (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 51. Historians debate whether merchants sought to emulate the behaviour of the gentry. There was a spectrum of the middling sort, but …
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… The Spectator banned gossip and personal satire 5 while The Free-Thinker fixed the rules of controversy and debates by forbidding personal abuses and misuse of words. 6 In addition, some of the papers were explicitly fashioned as …
… Burney, whose first novel, Evelina , had made such a splash. Frances, an inveterate diarist, would chronicle many of the debates at Streatham, and provided a female friendship that filled a gap in Hester Thrale’s so far male-dominated life. 6 …
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… end, as outcasts from the polite society that made up the republic of letters. And indeed, a lot of the criticism of and debates around Grub Street came at least implicitly down to questions of control. For people like Pope, Grub Street was …
… Titles such as ‘Hurrah for Free Trade; down with Reciprocity!’ and Free Trade versus Reciprocity summed up contemporary debates over international trade. 22 The derogatory epithets ‘reciprocity-monger’ and ‘reciprocitarian’ entered into the …