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Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
… Image Front page of the first issue of The Daily Courant, 11 March 1702. Résumé Journals and books played a relevant role in the construction of modern public opinion and the diffusion of new forms of sociability … some forms of sociability that would appear later on. Concepts > Social interaction Practices > Communication Mots-clés Books Censorship Newspapers Periodicals Public sphere In the eighteenth century, the increase in circulation of books and newspapers, and the opening of coffeehouses, led to the dawn of modern public opinion and increased the public …
Books | Censorship | Newspapers | Periodicals | Public sphere
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… An Imam in Paris. Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831), trans. Daniel L. Newman (London: Saqi Books, 2011), p. 154. 4 . According to the French custom of the time, anyone coming from abroad was put in quarantine in … a cultural and a social purpose. He was amazed by the numerous libraries and by the great regard in which they held books of all cultures. He noted with deep admiration that one of these libraries, al-Khizāna al-Sultāniyya (Bibliothèque Royale), housed a huge number of Arabic books that were rare anywhere else including in Egypt. It even contained extremely rare copies of the Qur’ān. He also …
Dress | Europe | France | Theatre | Travel
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
Audience | Coffeehouses | Fame | Rioting | Theatre
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Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… dedicated to social elites. The rapid socio-cultural change among the landed families required up-to-date reference books, which provided a snapshot of their ancestors, alliances and children. Whether it be during the London Season or in … confusing rules on titles meant that insiders as well as outsiders struggled to identify who was who. Shrewd London booksellers jumped at the opportunity and published hundreds of family compilations which listed all the names, … the main kings, queens and famous politicians. 10 . Jennie Batchelor, ‘Fashion and Frugality: Eighteenth-Century Pocket Books for Women’, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture (vol. 32, n° 1, 2003), p. 1-18; Barbara Burman and Ariane …
Collecting | Elite | Merchants | Politeness | Rank
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Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… and J. Robinson, 1797), Preface ; William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice [1793] (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985), p. 289; Samuel Johnson, ‘Solitude not eligible’ in The Adventurer, no 126, (19 Jan. 1754). Not … 18 A character in her Letters for Literary Ladies declares ‘I would have my daughter read and compare various books, and correct her judgment of books by listening to the conversation of persons of sense and experience’. 19 This is precisely what Lord Sheffield had …
Children | Controversy | Gentleman | Masculinity | Politeness | Science | Women
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Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Parliament, the Hall was a venue for well-off Londoners to shop and exchange political news. There Pepys would visit the bookseller Ann Mitchell, to buy newsbooks and chat about their families and other stallholders. Since in the 1660s Pepys was having affairs with Betty and … on 20 January 1703, Evelyn wished his friend ‘the Old man’s life’ which he had found described in a Latin couplet: ‘books, home, garden, bed, friend, wine, relaxation, passion, sense of humour, piety’. 6 These were words which spoke to …
Diaries | Family | Hospitality | Navy | Patronage
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Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… p. ii-vi. In spite of this justification, Grose’s Dictionary was mostly motivated by commercial opportunism as books dealing with the underworld and its excesses were extremely popular. 10 The literature dedicated to the ‘canting … 11 . See Vic Gatrell, ‘The Age of Cant’, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (London: Atlantic Books, 2006), p. 435-482. 12 . See George Canning, William Frere et al., ‘New Morality’, originally published in The … Cambridge University Press, 1991). Heller-Roazen, Daniel, Dark Tongues. The Art of Rogues and Riddlers (New York: Zone Books, 2013). Kinservik, Matthew J., ‘The Censorship of Samuel Foote's The Minor (1760): Stage Controversy in the …
Controversy | Conversation | Hypocrisy | Rhetoric
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Literature and Culture, p. 560. Also, Sander L. Gilman, Health and Illness: Images of Difference (London: Reaktion Books, 1995), p. 57: ‘sterility’ was perceived as a ‘social disease.’ 10 . Alain Kerhervé has shown the role of letters … & Hubert Penrose (Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1783), p. 27. 24 . Bath History, vol. IV (Bath: Millstream Books, 1992), Ellen Wilson, ‘A Shropshire Lady in Bath, 1794-1807’, p. 101 (Shropshire Record Office, Shrewsbury: Corbett … Lybbe Powys (1738-1817) A Half Century of Visits to Bath,’ in Stephen Powys Marks (ed.), Bath History (Bath: Millstream Books, 2002), vol. IX, p. 60. 29 . Miles Ogborn, Spaces of Modernity: London’s Geographies 1680-1780 (New York, London: …
Codes | Fashion | Health | Leisure | Politeness | Ritual | Spa
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