Title British sociability in the long eighteenth century : challenging the Anglo-French connection / edited by Valérie Capdeville and Alain Kerhervé

Published Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in the Eighteenth Century, 2398-9904 Studies in the eighteenth century. Contents Frontcover; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 Emergence of new political and social practices; 1 'Restoration' England and the history of sociability; 2 Mapping sociability on Restoration townscapes; 3 Club sociability and the emergence of new 'sociable' practices; 4 The tea-table, women and gossip in early eighteenth-century Britain; Part 2 Competing models of sociability; 5 'Amateurs' vs connoisseurs in French and English academies of painting; 6 Masonic connections and rivalries between France and Britain 7 Competing models of sociability: Smollett's repossession of an ailing British body8 A theory of British epistolary sociability?; 9 Gender and the practices of polite sociability in late eighteenth-century Edinburgh; Part 3 Paradoxes of British sociability; 10 In company and out: the public/private selves of Johnson and Boswell; 11 Friendship and unsociable sociability in eighteenth-century literature; 12 The anti-social convivialist: toasting and resistance to sociability; 13 Sociability and the Glorious Revolution: a dubious connection in Burke's philosophy 14 Respectability vs political agency: a dilemma for British radical societiesConclusion; Bibliography; Index Summary The study of sociability in the long eighteenth century has long been dominated by the example of France. In this innovative collection, we see how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a complex process of appropriation, emulation and resistance to what was happening in France and other parts of Europe. The contributors use a wide range of sources - from city plans to letter-writing manuals, from the writings of Edmund Burke to poems and essays about the social practices of the tea table, and a variety of methodological approaches to explore philosophical, political and social aspects of the emergence of British sociability in this period. They create a rounded picture of sociability as it happened in public, private and domestic settings - in Masonic lodges and radical clubs, in painting academies and private houses - and compare specific examples and settings with equivalents in France, bringing out for instance the distinctively homo-social and predominantly masculine form of British sociability, the role of sociability within a wider national identity still finding its way after the upheaval of civil war and revolution in the seventeenth century, and the almost unique capacity of the British model of sociability to benefit from its own apparent tensions and contradictions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Social exchange -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Civilization Manners and customs Social exchange SUBJECT Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056624 France -- Civilization -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005892 Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056951 Subject France Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Capdeville, Valérie, editor. Kerhervé, Alain, editor. ISBN 9781787444904 1787444902

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