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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Friendship | Women
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Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
Clothes | Consumption | Dress | Fashion | Rank | Women
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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… During the long eighteenth century, a huge wave of exotic mania led to various social interactions characterised by the refinement of manners and the love of luxury. The term ‘exotic’ was associated with unfamiliar flora and fauna as well as … England so fully that the passion for the exotic led to various social interactions characterised by the refinement of manners and the love of luxury. The term ‘exotic’ - which must not be misunderstood with exoticism, a term … departing widely from the European taste. In this encounter between East and West, mixing up categories of sociability, refinement of taste is achieved by what Hume calls the ‘interposition’ of ideas, the interposition of cultures. 9 . …
Animals | Australia | Chinoiserie | Collecting | Commerce | Exoticism | Menageries | North America
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Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… English patterns of sociability in order to distinguish themselves in colonial society and to mix in British circles. Refinement of one’s person, and opportunities to display this in select groups, were essential to elite distinction, … and 1730s, masters including Samuel Perpoint, Thomas Ball and sister, and Theobold Hackett 4 advertised dancing as refinement, promising to teach adults and children grace of carriage and genteel behaviors, along with the latest dances … its own Dancing Assembly. In the 1770s, dancing masters’ advertisements shifted from the general promise of corporeal refinement through dance to the specifics of teaching minuets, hornpipes, cotillions, and country dances, ‘as practiced …
Assemblies | Advertisement | Dance | North America
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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
Art | Commodities | Community | Consumption | Furniture | Luxury | Porcelain | Shopping | Tea-table | Women
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
Codes | Fashion | Health | Leisure | Politeness | Ritual | Spa
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
Britishness | Commerce | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Gender | Moral philosophy | Manners | Politeness | Public sphere
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