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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]

… the practice of tea drinking was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, poetry, essays) the term ‘tea-table’ increasingly served as a synecdoche for the sociable assembly. As an idea, … the practice of tea drinking was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, poetry, essays) the term ‘tea-table’ increasingly served as a synecdoche for the sociable assembly. As an …

Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]

… on those written during the revolutionary decade (1789-1800). It aims to show how sociability – sociable practices, culture, values – was a key topic for understanding the Continental other (its character, manners and mores) but also a … decade intensified the politicisation of sociability in travel narratives as the formation of the self through culture, amusements and public events was increasingly seen as inextricably tied up with the nature and form of the … the revolutionary travelogues and, for the British audience, an expected textual component that would echo the numerous visual caricatures of French atrocities in circulation at that time. Partager Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin …

Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]

… sociability and conviviality. It also describes the use of the term, and the specific rituals associated with convivial culture. Practices > Eating & Drinking Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Concepts > Character Concepts > Social … alongside traditional ballad slip-sheets, and were intended for use in the convivial gathering itself. Evidence from the visual arts suggests that singers sometimes sang from sheets, rather than memorizing the words, although songsters and … in private homes too. Richard Newton’s ‘ Soulagement en Prison, or comfort in Prison ‘  for example, adapts the standard visual iconography used to represent a tavern meeting to show a meeting taking place in Newgate. At the other end of the …

Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]

… social arenas that included women, or were hosted by women. The importance of sociability and its place in political culture becomes very apparent when considering what could happen when issues or election campaigns became so divisive … was not new at the time, and the Regency Crisis saw the female supporters of the prince adopt an expensive and visually striking Regency Cap, complete with the princes three feathers and his motto, while the male members of the … Constitutional Club, who supported Pitt and the court, disported themselves in a blue, orange and white uniform. These visual statements had their social consequences, with women of one faction greeting the entrance of those from the other …

Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]

… of sociability began to flourish, British portraitists started to offer a new mode of portraiture expressive of this culture. After a tentative start in the 1720s, the ‘conversation piece’ took off around 1730, thanks to artists such as … patronage from George III and Charlotte. The little paintings produced by these artists provide some of the most vivid visual representations of sociability from the period. 1 . This DIGIT.EN.S entry draws on material from my book. Kate … Conversation Piece: Scenes from Fashionable Life (London: Royal Collection, 2009) Solkin, David, Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993), …

Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]

… he believed that sociability was both natural and necessary for civil society. The eighteenth century was a culture built on the ideals of company, association, and politeness, where men and women were expected to maintain a … to Robert Burton’s seminal work, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), explicitly linked solitude and melancholy, with a visual depiction of solitude. Here, solitude was represented through images of a natural environment – with deer, hares … the favoured place in which to achieve a higher connection to the divine. This was common in the monastic and cloistered cultures of Catholicism. Many zealous Protestants also delighted in regular retreats into the closet or other private …