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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
Affection | Benevolence | Conversation | Family | Friendship | Imagination | Patriotism | Science | Sympathy
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Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… Piece', Tate, T00789, c. 1715-20. Résumé Conversation was a polysemic practice of sociability in leisured and learned classes. Ideally, it cultivated politeness, pleasure, ease and reciprocity. At the same time, its plural meanings also … (1790) On Conversation (1793) … Conversation was a polysemic practice of sociability in leisured and learned classes. Ideally, it cultivated politeness, pleasure, ease and reciprocity. At the same time, its plural meanings also …
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Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… Gaming Playing Playing games was a crucial aspect of daily sociability especially among the aristocracy and the middle classes in the long eighteenth century as we can see from the numerous treatises and publications on the subject such as … For an analysis on how card games gradually became a mark of hospitality favouring social interactions among the middle classes see Janet E. Mullin, ‘“We Had Carding”: Hospitable Card Play and Polite Domestic Sociability among the Middling … of Art , 41.77.1, 1791. 6 . On that subject see Janet E. Mullin, A Sixpence at Whist: Gaming and the English Middle Classes, 1680-1830 (New York: The Boydell Press, 2015), p. 3-5. 7 . John Hayes, ‘Rowlandson, Thomas (1757-1827), artist’, …
Aristocracy | Domesticity | Furniture | Gambling | Gaming | Playing
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Prime Minister, or the Stamp Act crisis (1765-66). 12 This newly formed community of invalids could temporarily ignore class divisions, at least the boundary separating the aristocracy and the gentry from the emerging middle class, or ‘middling orders.’ Some diseases could be seen as so many badges of honour, most particularly gout, considered … Park – tried to promote a utopia, that of Bath as a prime example of a new, open society. 22 In Bath, different social classes were brought together by shared illnesses, so a shared condition of frailty, and the cult of novelty. The eleven …
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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… French Revolution, and all those interested in the archaeological explorations that were feeding the development of neoclassicism and/or who were interested in witnessing the volcanic activity. Sir William’s home thus became a hub of … She also provided the entertainment, dancing the tarantella or performing her Attitudes for her guests. Dressed in classic attire, the beautiful, sensual, and seductive Emma adopted poses (or attitudes) reminiscent of mythological, religious, and literary figures in classical statuary works of the great masters, and paintings found on ancient vases and on the recently excavated walls …
Dance | Diplomacy | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy | Travel
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Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]
… attendees, whose theatre presence was part of their societal duty. As this arena opened to soldiers and the working class, it became a currency for increasing one’s status in one’s own social circle. Some patrons of dance considered … in the Theatre for Ballet Performances Within the interior of the theatre, the placement of the seated noble and gentry class attendees was a key part of the representation of one’s status. The space of the theatre and where bodies inhabited … space was dictated by the stage placement which was at the end of one side of the building. The titled and gentrified class of social status sat farther away from the stage, up higher in expensive theatre boxes, surveilling those below and …
Audience | Commodities | Dance | Theatre
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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… for eighteenth-century sociability, operating as a kind of open space where the ordinary rules regulating regional and class differences might be suspended, at least in part. A form of interaction grew up in which those social norms might … 1856), p. 350-351. 5 . See Thomas A. Chambers, Drinking the Waters: Creating a Nineteenth-Century American Leisure Class at Mineral Springs (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002). Opinions regarding how well these efforts … other means used in Bath to regulate sociability and mediate some of the potential tensions arising from differences in class or status. Instead, patrons formed their own groups which were largely self-regulated, creating a relatively easy …
Colonies | Cosmopolitanism | Health | Leisure | North America | Spa | Travel
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… is indeed wanting of knowledg’ ( Correspondence, 202). 1 Such lines were inspired by Shaftesbury's profound humanist classicism, one he imbibed from his childhood. Locke, by all means the most significant English philosopher of the late … as the proper method to hone sociable feelings: the dialogue. In conjunction with two paintings (rife with references to classical thought) that Shaftesbury commissioned the German expatriate John Closterman to prepare, The Moralists shows … and Cicero, such as Isaac and Meric Casaubon, Claudius Salmasius, or Thomas Gataker. In these humanist editions of classical writers, Shaftesbury eventually found a political interpretation of sociability that appealed to him ( …
Affection | Catholicism | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Manners | Politeness | Whigs | Wit
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