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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]

… for a ritual encounter and structured sociability.  Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Punch Ceramic Tableware drinking masculinity ritual Celebration Conviviality Punch was a drink made from a blend of alcohol spirit, fruit, sugar, spices … those in the lower and plebeian ranks who would drink beer. 1 1 . Karen Harvey, ‘Ritual encounters: punch parties and masculinity in the eighteenth century’, Past and Present, (no. 214, 2012), pp. 174-180. The punch bowl itself was an … several contemporary depictions of homosocial gatherings, indicates a particular association between the punch bowl and masculinity. Punch parties around a punch bowl enabled men of different ranks to join together in manly fraternity. It is …

Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]

… men throughout the period. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Character Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés masculinity Rank Violence Rape culture Literature The term ‘rake’, short for ‘rakehell’, has been used to describe a … Englishmen and women go well beyond the bounds of fiction. In fact, the archetype embodies a specific form of masculinity that resonates with the historical reality of the period: the figure’s potential for social disruption as an … themselves of their superiority. Like their Restoration forefathers, the Georgian rakes are the illustration of a masculinity and male sociability in crisis, at a time when what it meant to be a man, and a man of high standing, was …

Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]

… > Education Concepts > Social interaction Concepts > Language & Speech Mots-clés Gentlemen Women Children Politeness masculinity Improvement Critical thinking dialogues ‘Conversation’, as developed in seventeenth-century France, was … conversation was characterised by plain speaking and sincerity.  Such critiques occasioned debates about language, masculinity and identity and fuelled the cultural rivalry between the two nations. 14   13 . André Morellet, 'De la … fluency that had been the hallmark of the polite gentleman and was now a signifier of the English gentleman‘s masculinity and mental strength, indicating a profound shift in the definition of the gentleman and the national …

Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]

… intergenerational connections.  Practices > Mobility Practices > Education Mots-clés Education Formation elite masculinity tourism Travel diplomacy academies Politeness Court Salon Cosmopolitanism Continental networks The Grand Tour … Writing and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999). Cohen, Michèle, Fashioning Masculinity: National identity and language in the eighteenth century (London: Routledge, 1996). ____________‘The Grand … History of Education (vol. 21, n° 3, 1992), p. 241-57. ____________‘The Grand Tour: Language, National Identity and Masculinity’, Changing English 8:2 (2001), pp. 129-41. Gallagher, John, Learning languages in early modern England …

Duelling [ Politics & Society ]

… a reflection on their long history, which is also briefly sketched here. Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés masculinity disorder antagonism honour Religion law aristocracy Gentleman honour Spectator Duelling was not simply an … texts of 1610, the other one being Thomas Middleton’s The Peace-Maker . These texts attacked both duels and the masculinity which they were supposed to embody, and framed the debate for the years to come. They placed duels in the … their endurance cannot be understood without a reflection on their long history, which is also briefly sketched here. … masculinity … disorder … antagonism … honour … Religion … law … aristocracy … Gentleman … honour … Spectator … Duelling …

Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]

… final departure from England in 1816. Like the fop, the buck, and the flâneur, the dandy is a fashionable embodiment of masculinity. As a type or a pose, he gained currency in the nineteenth century. Young men were quick to copy Brummell’s … Références complémentaires Adams, James Eli, Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995). Beerbohm, Max, 'Dandies and Dandies',   The Works of Max Beerbohm …