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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… his memory for posterity. Friendship was always central to Keats’s life; his poetry and letters attest to a vitally social existence, and to the lasting influence of London literary coteries on his development as a poet and thinker. … flurry of creative activity in 1819, before his death at the unripe age of 25 – in that it entwines the literary and the social with empathetic alertness. It also highlights the extent to which Keats, far from the ethereal misfit his Victorian successors held him to be, saw himself as embedded in a variety of social networks, which pushed against the borders of his more narrowly defined socio-economic class: the letter begins by …
Correspondence | Friendship | Nature | Poetry | Politics | Romanticism
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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… case of Clarissa; Or, the History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison – epistolary novels. 2 A network of sociability is fashioned by the very acts of sending and receiving letters, especially as during the … from single reader to multiple readers or listeners, and an expansion promoting sociability and the development of a social network. 3 Letters create a vital link between people and sometimes also are the first link in a chain of … Clarissa , often used as a moral and sentimental yardstick. 7 In the circle of Richardson’s epistolary friends, social elitism and gender boundaries were therefore transcended and replaced by an elitism based on intellectual, moral …
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Clone of Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… West End, they fulfilled a wide range of functions (mail, banking, politics). Their crucial significance in various social circles could be best explained by the connections to other public places such as coffee-houses, taverns, markets … were amphibious businessmen, whose prosperity depended on their ability to liaise with customers from various social backgrounds (urban middle-sort, the national landed elites). Places > Cities Places > Trade Mots-clés Books … a changing social world, the inclusive and exclusive potential of bookshops and the extension of the booksellers’ social networks beyond the metropolis. 1 . Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk: Containing …
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Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… West End, they fulfilled a wide range of functions (mail, banking, politics). Their crucial significance in various social circles could be best explained by the connections to other public places such as coffee-houses, taverns, markets … were amphibious businessmen, whose prosperity depended on their ability to liaise with customers from various social backgrounds (urban middle-sort, the national landed elites). Places > Cities Places > Trade Mots-clés Books … a changing social world, the inclusive and exclusive potential of bookshops and the extension of the booksellers’ social networks beyond the metropolis. 1 . Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk: Containing …
Books | Commerce | Reading
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… Stothard (1755-1834) as well as the sculptor John Flaxman (1756-1826). Blake was an avid collector of prints; his early networks existed through print shops and auction rooms. On his father’s death in 1784, his older brother James took over … 8. All references are to volume one of Gilchrist’s biography. In the 1780s Blake developed his writing and, again, his social networks tie into his projects. Poetical Sketches (1783), a collection of juvenilia and only work to appear in … his wife Harriet Mathew (1743-1815), who hosted a literary salon and invited Blake on Flaxman’s recommendation. At these social gatherings Blake is reputed to have sung; Harriet Mathew, who was fascinated by Blake, gave him funds for the …
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Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… some general conclusions about Casanova’s sociability, it is evident that he straddled several, more or less legitimate networks, demonstrating their interconnectedness in eighteenth-century culture. His memoir shows his sociability in all … to count on personal charm, and an active sociability. No wonder, therefore, that establishing connections in varied social networks was his principal activity and source of revenue, and the main subject of his writing. Some such contacts … such as London, Saint-Petersburg, Paris or Madrid. But his most natural companionship came from the world of theatre. Socializing with actresses, dancers and opera singers came naturally to him, and while he would often carry on an affair …
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Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… a Smart City, Edinburgh’s Civic Development, 1660-1750 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), p. 197. Gendered social places? They were meeting places for gentlemen. Women remained absent from these intellectual and social spheres up until the 1770s. During the Enlightenment era, some societies, such as the Select Society (1754), the … The role played by clubs and societies in the formation of British and European social, intellectual and political networks In the context of the Auld Alliance and of the institutional Union of 1707, the influence of France was decisive …
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
Bluestockings | Charity | Education | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Manners | Philanthropy | Poverty | Reformation | Religion | Slavery | Women
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Salons [ Associational culture ]
… to debate the relationship of the salons to the Enlightenment, the salons were nevertheless a defining feature of social life in the Ancien Régime , with hundreds of salons taking place throughout Paris. These weekly gatherings featured a mixed-gendered group of aristocrats, artists, and men of letters. The salons were social gatherings, involving conversation and games, but they were also sites for literary and philosophical discussion, and notably, for men of letters to network and secure protections and patronage. Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Enlightenment France Gaming …
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