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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… Laclos embodied all forms of eighteenth-century sociability. He was a Freemason and regular visitor to the clubs and salons of the revolutionary period. Finding his military career unrewarding, he became politically active alongside … Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos embodied all forms of eighteenth-century sociability. He frequented the salons of the garrison towns where he was posted as an artilleryman and was a member of the societies and clubs of the … in the Rousseauian tradition, a spare-time literary critic and an author of courtly poems, inspired by his visits to the salons. This work was all eclipsed, however, by his epistolary novel, which ensured his name would be preserved for …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… by then bygone days of sociable eighteenth-century life: Burney, by now the widowed Mme d’Arblay, praised the literary salons of her youth for promoting freedom of speech, controversial ideas, and even conflict, contrasting them to what she … in to delight everyone with his mimicry of other famous actors on the social scene. 3 3 . On the impact of the Burney Salon on the younger members of the family, see also Cassandra Ulph, ‘Frances Burney’s Private Professionalism’, Journal … of the young Burneys. Frances’s journals during the years 1774-1784 in particular offer a rich source of contemporary salon culture. 4 Her phenomenal memory may not always be trustworthy in every detail, but she managed to capture …
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Spas [ Health ]
… towns which abounded in urban spaces dedicated to sociability: the pump-room, the assembly rooms, the walks, villas and salons. Time was also structured socially through the seasons and the daily schedules: from dawn to dusk spa societies … towns which abounded in urban spaces dedicated to sociability: the pump-room, the assembly rooms, the walks, villas and salons. Time was also structured socially through the seasons and the daily schedules: from dawn to dusk spa societies …
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French epistolary novel [ Literary & Artistic genres / Reading & Writing ]
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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… story is consonant with B’s general efforts to make a spectacle of Pamela in other ways, by having her tell stories in salons and even reciting himself one of her poems before a group of guests. […] The movement from the first half to the … of Richardson’s novel is the movement from the privacy of the prison and the tête-à-tête to the world of society and the salon, the movement from private reading to publication.’ Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form (Columbus: Ohio State …
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