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Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]

… Club. It explores the reasons why the clubs strayed from their initial ideals of civil debate and succumbed to lethal factionalism. After reviewing historiographical debates, which portray the clubs alternatively as sources of tragic … > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés Politics French Revolution Gender Democracy Violence law Sovereignty State Jacobin Club Faction Political clubs proliferated in France during the French Revolution and became a principal driver of regime … teaching citizens how to work together to define and pursue common goals for a post-absolutist age. If they lapsed into factionalism, this was due to the polarising effect of circumstances, notably the king’s failed attempt to flee France in …

Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]

… clubbing and was the first to turn membership into a social credential. With members drawn exclusively from one Whig faction, yet with foundations in the literary world, it became a hub of patronage along lines of intellectual friendship … clubbing and was the first to turn membership into a social credential. With members drawn exclusively from one Whig faction, yet with foundations in the literary world, it became a hub of patronage along lines of intellectual friendship … social centres of the literati, such as Dryden’s Witty Club, were distinct from centres of political subversion or factional organisation. As it grew, the Kit-Cat exploited this combination of aims, understanding that it was helpful for …

Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]

… to remember that much of this networking, solicitation, manoeuvring, and negotiation — be it about policy or patronage, factional alliances, or elections — took place in mixed-sex social arenas that included women, or were hosted by women. 2 … gather and disseminate political news and gossip, discuss men and measures, facilitate networking and build or maintain factional allegiances, or seek patronage for themselves or their clients. Important political hostesses, such as Mary, … December, the Regency had become the dominant and divisive topic of conversation and relations between supporters of the factions were fractious. Lord Jersey complained to his old friend, Lady Spencer, ‘I have been witness to very few …

Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]

… sides of the conflict to churn out pamphlets in quick succession. After the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, these factions were succeeded by the political parties that began to develop, and that continued to use – and pay – writers for … A Study of Sub-Literary London in the Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1968), p. 3. Writing as a mercenary for a faction was one aspect of the negative connotations around  the terms ‘Grub Street’ and ‘hack writer’, the other was …

Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]

… ancestral seat in Wimborne St. Giles in 1683. Consequently, he was exposed to the dangers that politico-theological faction could inflict on the individual from his earliest youth, an aspect which later came to fundamentally inform his …

English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]

… form of sociability, founded not on bonds of sympathy,  philia  or a spirit of benevolence, but rather on a ‘Spirit of Faction’ which does not hinder the exchange of ideas as suggested by Joseph Addison, 4  but which, conversely, stimulates … shared by numerous readers, including Fielding and Haywood, in discovering Pamela , which led to the constitution of a faction called ‘the Anti-Pamelists’, who questioned Richardson’s moral purpose as well as the didactic intention ascribed …