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Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]
… Advertiser, April 15 and April 16 1763, signed ‘Write More‘ and ‘A Constant Correspondent‘. 11 . Jon Mee, Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford University Press, 2003), p. …
Community | Conviviality | Hilarity | Politics | Song | Toasting
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Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… the Truth of what appeared, and to encourage [ Greatrakes ] to give this Account to the World’ ( Greatrakes 96). This enthusiasm surrounding the appearance of Valentine Greatrakes highlights the new social climate that pervaded Britain and …
Health | Irrational Crowd | Nature | Religion | Supernaturalism
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
Art | Collecting | Commerce | Conversation | Correspondence | Exhibitions | Friendship | Patronage | Poetry | Salons
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… penetrated thro’ his Waistcoat and Shirt, and drew Blood; the sight of which, in an Instant, dispell’d the fumes of Enthusiasm, and from an Indian Prince he sunk into his original Character, that of a Journeyman Barber’. 13 . Allan, …
Clubs | Family | Fiction | Streets
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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… entertainment among family and friends. Performing European plays helped the colonists feel connected to the Continent. Enthusiasm for theatre grew along with urban populations. Theatre houses sprang up in Cap français and Port-au-Prince in …
France | Marronage | North America | Slavery | Theatre | Women
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… 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. However, the Scottish literature of the 1760s …
Britishness | Commerce | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Gender | Moral philosophy | Manners | Politeness | Public sphere
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Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… a negative version of Helen Maria Williams’s revolutionary sociability. Traditional French gaiety and revolutionary enthusiasm have disappeared, replaced by faked hilarity, silent terror or savage mirth: ‘I have seen […] a cotillion …
Education | French Revolution | Travel | Women
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… been written by their fellow friar Thomas Potter, with minor additions by Wilkes, and had likely been shared with much enthusiasm in the Brotherhood. Despite the hypocritical nature of Sandwich’s accusations, the public exposure of the …
Blasphemy | Clubs | Masculinity | Sex
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