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Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]

… London Theatres The Literary Club Brooks's Club British political circles Anglo-Irish identity Clubbability Duelling Edmund Burke Charles James Fox Lord Byron Richard Brinsley Sheridan was part of the late eighteenth-century London … Pitt the Younger’s Tory government. Sheridan joined the Whig fraternity with Fox and William Windham (1750-1810) and Edmund Burke, Dublin-born like him (1729-1797). Sheridan’s sociability (he was smiled on by royalty, being a close …

Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]

… 1750 to the Present (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001). Before the outbreak of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke dwelt on the idea of a ‘general opinion’ stemming from private reflection on public affairs as they were … highlighted in the opening chapter of Culture and Society (1958), whose first paragraph is specifically dedicated to Edmund Burke and William Cobbett. Through his public speeches and political engagement, ‘Burke is describing a process, …

Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]

… By the mid-century, in  A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful  (1757), Edmund Burke suggested that ‘the manners give a certain determination to the countenance, which being observed to correspond … these were underpinned by long-established sociocultural beliefs about the relationship between body and soul. 4 . Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: R. and J. …

Cant [ Language & Speech ]

… to Tories and opponents to the Revolution as a perversion of true British manners and sociability. They followed in that Edmund Burke, one of the main inspirers of the renewal of conservative political philosophy, who had famously called the British … 1798), reprinted in William Gifford (ed.), Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin [1799] (London: J. Wright, 1801), p. 233-256. 13 . Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790], ed. L. G. Mitchell, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, …

Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]

… a more or less regular basis were David Garrick (1717-1779), Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Arthur Young (1741-1820), Edmund Burke (1729-1797) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), and, when in London, composers such as Antonio Sacchini …

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]

… honneur. Grande admiratrice de Shakespeare, elle assiste à une représentation d’ Hamlet  au Théâtre Royal du Haymarket. Edmund Burke lui fait visiter Oxford, où elle admire le vitrail réalisé par Reynolds pour Christ Church. Elle se recueille sur … et à Bath, elle assiste presque quotidiennement aux représentations théâtrales. La comtesse gagne ensuite Bury St. Edmunds et réside plusieurs mois dans le Suffolk. Ce second voyage a donc été l’occasion pour elle, outre la pratique de …