… This entry argues that the West End was shaped by both patrician society and a vigorous and often obscene popular culture that was evident in the pubs and brothels of Covent Garden. The West End created centres of male association, … who shaped the area to define itself. Yet West End locations for elite sociability co-existed with a vigorous popular culture, located in pubs, sites of curiosity, print shops, coffee houses and brothels. The patent theatres in Drury Lane … End became a place that shaped the public sphere through sites of discussion, encounter and the dissemination of print culture. 1 1 . Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of …
… Ramond, Pierre, La Marqueterie (Dourdan : Éditions H. Vial, 1988). Reith, Gerda, The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western Culture (London: Routledge, 1999). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Public Advertiser (1781) The Young Lady's Pocket Library … Ramond, Pierre, La Marqueterie (Dourdan : Éditions H. Vial, 1988). Reith, Gerda, The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western Culture (London: Routledge, 1999). … Aristocracy … Domesticity … Furniture … Gambling … Gaming … Playing … Gaming table …
… he straddled several, more or less legitimate networks, demonstrating their interconnectedness in eighteenth-century culture. His memoir shows his sociability in all its rich and messy reality, deployed in a continuous present yet rooted … he straddled several, more or less legitimate networks, demonstrating their interconnectedness in eighteenth-century culture: scholarly and literary circles, aristocracy and the court, libertines and the demi-monde of theatre and opera. … he straddled several, more or less legitimate networks, demonstrating their interconnectedness in eighteenth-century culture. His memoir shows his sociability in all its rich and messy reality, deployed in a continuous present yet rooted …
… it proceeded from the disorder and the general violence of society. Keith Thomas has described the masculine, violent culture which presided over seventeenth-century England: ‘Physical combat, of a more or less ritualized kind, was a part of masculine culture at every social level. Just as the upper classes had their ‘roisters’, ‘hectors’, and duellists, so the lower …
… du grand commerce au XVIIIe siècle et répond à la quête de sociabilité de ses acteurs. Practices > Associational culture Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Mots-clés Aristocracy Commerce Freemasonry Hospitality Entre-soi aristocratique …
Menageries
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… in Princes!’. 4 Alongside all of the jokes and satire about targeting the Queen and women’s exotic animals in a print culture dominated by a male elite, the zebra represented a deeper dimension in Georgian society which was immersed in a culture of spectatorship. Georgian naturalists initially believed that zebras might be tameable and be trained to pull … As Henri Lefevbre aptly summarises, ‘the sense of smell had its glory days when animality still predominated over “culture”, rationality and education’. 12 Another malodorous exotic good was the bear grease combed as a wax and used to …
Patronage
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… his art in a middle ground between the high-art original and the mass-produced commodity of the ever-expanding print culture. Lastly, the creation of music underwent comparable changes, particularly towards the end of the century. While …
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