Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… from morning to night, and he did not initiate these soirées to while away a few idle hours. 4 Goodman argues that Enlightenment salons ‘served purposes of social mobility’, and this was true also of the Burney gatherings: Dr Burney … Rousseau Burney frequently did ( The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, II, 77; 187). 3 . Dena Goodman, ‘Enlightenment Salons: The Convergence of Female and Philosophic Ambitions’, ECS (22/3, 1989), p. 329-350, p. 338. 4 . The … in private’. 12 These gatherings may not compare to other literary salons in their general project of furthering the Enlightenment; they may not even qualify as a ‘salon’ when compared to those of the Parisian salonnières or the …
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