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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… in the 1710s, was by the 1730s being regularly attacked in his satires, and replying in kind. Party politics certainly played an important role in the strengthening of some friendships and the decaying of others. Pope’s political … sociable virtue. Notwithstanding his cultivation of an idealistically sociable identity, Pope was perfectly capable of playing the villain when it suited him. Such incidents as his poisoning of the pirate bookseller Edmund Curll in 1716 – and his own subsequent publicising of the act in print – remind us that the nurturing of enmities always played just as vital a role in Pope’s self-fashioning as did the language of friendship. 4 4 . For full details of Pope’s …
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… seeks to outline the contours of a transnational spa sociability in four major aspects of ‘openness’ i.e., the interplay of sociability and health, the paradox of regulation and freedom, the transformation of the self in a specific … Bath (London: Faber & Faber, 1932), p. 253. The role in regulating sociability and easing the frictions that might arise played by the Master of Ceremonies seems to be the greatest and perhaps most English innovation in spa sociability. It … type of sociability. Spa sociability involved a degree of self-exhibition, social composure in public spaces, the display of wit, mastering the art of conversation between the sexes on various sociable occasions such as public breakfasts …
Celebrity | Fame | Health | Rules | Spa
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Celebrity [ Publicity ]
… has a much longer history that begins in the later fifteenth century. 9 Portraiture has an even longer history and has played an important role in cultivating public interest in celebrated individuals. 10 The continuities between premodern …
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Voltaire (and his social networks) [ Association ]
Celebrity | Correspondence | Friendship | Networks | Patronage
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