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Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… also probing sociability’s power to unify communities. Finally, Austen’s legacy has catalysed modern sociability through clubs and societies dedicated to her work and amongst new communities emerging in the digital realm. People > Art and … a popular cult of Austenolotry grew up around her fictions. 14 From the mid-twentieth century, literary societies and clubs devoted to Austen were founded across the English-speaking world: associations like the Jane Austen Society of … also probing sociability’s power to unify communities. Finally, Austen’s legacy has catalysed modern sociability through clubs and societies dedicated to her work and amongst new communities emerging in the digital realm. … Knox-Shaw, Peter, …
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Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… and old-style ale houses. Yet it has a sociable dimension. It was frequently included in punch, the archetypal drink of clubs and friendly societies, and was the bond that lubricated many criminal associations. Objects > Food & Drink … and old-style ale houses. Yet it has a sociable dimension. It was frequently included in punch, the archetypal drink of clubs and friendly societies, and was the bond that lubricated many criminal associations. … Clark, Peter, ‘The “Mother …
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… characterized British society in the eighteenth century. They were shown in learned societies, educational institutions, clubs, assembly rooms, coffeehouses, and taverns. Experiments occurred in settings of social interaction and … natural philosophy (in the words of Joseph Addison) ‘out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses.' 1 1 . [Joseph Addison], The Spectator, no. 10 (12 March … of Chicago Press, 1999), pp. 69-93. Outside the home, experiments were also shown in the predominantly male ambience of clubs and societies devoted to science and general learning. Formally constituted scientific institutions in London, …
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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee houses.’ ( The Spectator n° 10, 12 March 1711) Addison’s and Steele’s … debates about coffeehouse sociability has led some commentators to believe that coffeehouses were ultimately replaced by clubs as the eighteenth century wore on. In fact, the history of clubs and coffeehouses remained intertwined throughout the period. From the first meetings of the Rota Club in the 1650s …
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… Scotland’s intellectual effervescence lay in the distinctive modes of sociability forged in the nation’s debating clubs, universities, patriotic societies and comm ercial spaces in the wake of the 1707 Union. Even the outstanding … of a multitude of patriotic societies devoted to Scotland’s improvement, ranging from the most informal of convivial clubs to more formalised philosophical and professional societies such as the Select Society. Many of these were … to the worlds of London and the wider empire throughout the eighteenth century. But it is true that the many societies, clubs, coffee houses and taverns thriving in the small urban area of Edinburgh were ‘largely composed of professional men …
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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… into their distinctive features and practices which far surpasses the pure semantics of a lexical definition. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Academies France Italy Literature The Early Modern era saw … from that of salons, evolving into ‘coexisting yet disparate forms of sociability.’ (Roche 47) 1 . Clark Peter, British clubs and societies 1580-1800: the origins of an associational world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 10-11. 2 …
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Phaeton [ Transport ]
… promenade and performance. Gentleman phaeton-drivers formed part of the eighteenth century’s associational world of clubs and societies. Driving clubs such as the Bensington Driving Club and the Four-in-Hand Club emerged in the early nineteenth century in which adopting a specific type of coach marked out the difference between clubs and were integral to clubs’ collective, associational identity. The Barouche Club were seriously invested in the …
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Dositej Obradović [ Travel ]
… and sociable practices in the diffusion of enlightenment ideas. Since there were no meeting places like British pubs or clubs, Obradović had to organize occasions for the most important Serbian cultural figures to meet and discuss the … of his six-month stay in London he was able to return to his homeland and introduce these British practices of forming clubs and social circles for the diffusion of new ideas. He thereby made an indispensable contribution to the …
Cosmopolitanism | Dissent | Enlightenment | Scotland
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… England: he and Addison aspired to bring ‘ philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools, and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee–houses’. 9 Readers were encouraged to set aside part of their morning to …
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