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Arab Discovery of European Sociability [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… mission to Europe. al-Tahtāwī accompanied, as spiritual guide, a group of forty-four students sent to Paris to learn the French language, military techniques and other relevant subjects. He remained in Paris for five years (1826-1831), documenting all aspects of French society and sociability discovered during his stay, such as food, eating and drinking habits, housing, clothing, … Clearly, he was among the first Arabs, together with the Lebanese Butrus al-Bustānī (1819-1883), 14 to support a revolutionary position for those times: the access to education for women. His views on female emancipation were …

Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… religion, and the economy they were felt to voice threateningly radical opinions. When the reaction against the French Revolution hardened, public political debate became impossible and societies were outlawed. Despite those chequered … to the American War, comparisons between Pitt and Fox (a classic), foreign affairs, the Regency Crisis and the French Revolution. Also debated were issues pertaining to citizenship such as women’s suffrage (in female debating …

Cant [ Language & Speech ]

… Oxford, in which he warned his readers against the potential decadence of the English language it if were to imitate the French language too much: ‘the French [language] […] appears to be declining by the natural Inconstancy of that People, and the Affectation of some late … That interest in vulgar language and pastimes flourished in the last years of the long eighteenth century, as the French Revolution and its aftermath threatened to redefine British politics and sociability completely. Vic Gattrell has called …

Boxing [ Games & Sports ]

… of manly virtues. To legitimize boxing, various discourses shaped it as a science and as an art in the context of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Boxing became increasingly associated to a conservative and nationalist perception of … of manly virtues. To legitimize boxing, various discourses shaped it as a science and as an art in the context of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Boxing became increasingly associated to a conservative and nationalist perception of … and appendixes aim at ridiculing the idea that international relationships are more genteel after the defeat of the French emperor. The boxing match between the Russian Emperor and the British Regent becomes grotesque and ‘Georgy’’s …

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 …