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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… Stubbs, ‘The Kongouro from New Holland’, Wikimedia Commons, 1772. Image Jean-Étienne Liotard, ‘Lady Montagu in Turkish dress’, Wikimedia Commons, 1756. Image William Henry Brooke, ‘The anti-royal menagerie’, Wikimedia Commons, 1812. Image … Sauce in another. [...] The Infusion of a China Plant sweetened with the Pith of an Indian Cane. [...] The single Dress of a Woman of Quality is often the Product of a hundred Climates. The Muff and the Fan come together from the … From this perspective, turquerie provided new Oriental modes to express one’s social position. In particular, Turkish dresses (flowing gowns belted with ornate bands; ermine-trimmed robes; taseled turbans) and decorations (strings of …
Animals | Australia | Chinoiserie | Collecting | Commerce | Exoticism | Menageries | North America
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Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… Hall observed that the company on a field day ‘go out with as much ceremony as to court, their hair always being dressed’. 2 And the post-hunt socialising was no less glamorous: the start of the Quorn’s hunting season, for example, … County of Leicester, 4 vols. (London, 1795-1815, iii), p. 101n. For most of the eighteenth century there was no formal dress code, beyond the need to be seen in fine attire, but in the final decades of the century, foxhunters switched to … gentleman would scarcely be found within their midst. Packs were not socially integrative affairs – subscriptions, dress codes, and the custom of accepting new members only by invitation all helped to ensure that every foxhunting man …
Animals | Elite | Hunting | Sports | Women
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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
Art | Commodities | Community | Consumption | Furniture | Luxury | Porcelain | Shopping | Tea-table | Women
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Phaeton [ Transport ]
… maintain a bevy of carriages and horses was costlier than the carriages themselves. Truly only comparable to homes and dress, carriages were a unique and overt display of elite status – but a pleasure carriage set those of highest rank and … from Kensington to St. James’s Palace. 7 By the eighteenth century, London’s beau monde paraded along this lit track dressed in their best clothes, riding in their ornate carriages, and meeting one another out in their carriages and … Onslow is depicted in a coachman’s coat reflects elite men’s rejection, in the later eighteenth century, of magnificent dress for plainer, simpler clothes. 8 Onslow, lacking the full equipage of coachmen and grooms, blurs the distinction …
Animals | Courtship | Elite
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Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]
Dining | Elections | Public sphere | Tories | Whigs | Women
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Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]
… in Smith’s thought, this line of thinking would say they relate to each other only transactionally. By anachronistically dressing Smith in a utilitarian garb, this reading sees his view of individuals as interest-maximising agents to whom it … of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their …
Benevolence | Conduct | Imagination | Morality | Sympathy
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Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… the Highlanders. (Vol. 1 & 2. London: S. Birt, 1726). 3 . Highlanders: Account describing their Clan structure, Weapons, Dress and Way of Life, 29 Dec. 1724 (TNA: SP54/14/35). 4 . Alistair Moffat, The Highland Clans (London: Thames & Hudson, … which became very popular. McElroy suggests that ‘Highland Societies perhaps more than any other force, made the dress and culture of Highlandism the universally recognized identity of Scotland and even the most identifiable image of …
Clans | Clubs | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland | Tradition
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
Correspondence | Fashion | Fiction | Gambling | Politics | Suicide
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Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… factors such as genre, class, education, ideology, and financial situation to understand the issues they addressed in their travel narratives and the stylistic devices and strategies used. As underlined by Carl Thomson, … Lady Montagu thus argued that, by looking at how ‘the streets [were] well built and full of people, neatly and plainly dressed, the shops loaded with merchandise and the commonality clean and cheerful’, it was ‘impossible not to observe the … observations. We find them in Dorothy Wordsworth’s “Journal of a visit to Hamburgh” (1798), although indirectly addressed, and in Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Residence : ‘[…] the more I saw of the manners of …
Education | French Revolution | Travel | Women
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