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Cant [ Language & Speech ]

Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]

… objects enhanced individual status, in domestic settings and in public spaces. McKendrick even claims a ‘consumer revolution’. If luxury was often coded as pernicious and immoral, some thinkers (e.g. Mandeville) provocatively praised … sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, porcelain, textiles, and small furniture were imported from Asia by the British, French, and Dutch. Due to their popularity, these items were later imitated, adapted, and manufactured in Europe (Berg … which, unfortunately for her, were great Store of Romances, and, what was still more unfortunate, not in the original  French , but very bad Translations. 9 Arabella has obviously misunderstood the meaning of this library, which does not …

Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]

… 6  Her Comparative View of the Social Life of England and France, from the Restoration of Charles the Second to the French Revolution (1828) and Social Life in England and France, from the French Revolution in 1789 to that of July 1830 (1831) map out political as well as social and cultural history. 7  In …

Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]

… sharing of their political aspirations, especially their struggle for abolitionism and their common enthusiasm for the French Revolution, led to several remarkable achievements which turned out to be influential beyond the limits of Birmingham. One of their public letters was read at the French Convention Nationale, and Wedgwood’s famous medallion became a symbol of the anti-slavery movement. 2 David Erdman …

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

… and the Holy Roman Empire, the Enlightenment featured the rise of new forms of sociability. Ahead of the Industrial Revolution, the appearance of the bourgeois orders soon became the cornerstone of an informative sensitivity founded on … British Politics, 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 … Valérie Capdeville and Alain Kerhevé (eds.), British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century: Challenging the Anglo-French Connection (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019), p. 237-250. 7 Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780-1950 …