Association and Enlightenment : : Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830 / / ed. by Jane Rendall, Mark C. Wallace.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, David,; Andrews, Corey E.,; Andrews, Corey,; Brown, Rhona,; Carr, Rosalind,; Caudle, James J.,; Harris, Bob,; Jenkinson, Jacqueline,; McLean, Ralph,; Powell, Martyn J.,; Powell, Martyn,; Rendall, Jane,; Wallace, Mark C.,; Whatley, Christopher A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Rendall, Jane,; Wallace, Mark C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their meeting places and rituals, their links with the growth of the professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context in which clubs and societies are set, the collection offers a new framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. The Theory and Practice of Associational Life -- 1 Politeness, Sociability, and the “Little Platoon”: Associational Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment -- 2 Buildings, Associations, and Culture in the Scottish Provincial Town, c. 1700–1830 -- PART II. Professional Men and Their Societies -- 3 Medical Societies and the Scottish Enlightenment -- 4 Professors, Merchants, and Ministers in the Clubs of Eighteenth-Century Glasgow -- PART III. Clubs, Societies, and Literary Culture -- 5 “Soaping” and “Shaving” the Public Sphere: James Boswell’s “Soaping Club” and Edinburgh Enlightenment Sociability -- 6 The “Bohemian Club”: A Study of Edinburgh’s Cape Club -- 7 “Caledonia’s Bard, Brother Burns”: Robert Burns and Scottish Freemasonry -- 8 Inventing the Public Sphere: Fictional Club Life in Ireland and Scotland -- PART IV. Gender and Associational Culture -- 9 Achieving Manhood in Associational Culture: Student Societies and Masculinity in Enlightenment Edinburgh -- 10 Women’s Associations in Scotland, 1790–1830 -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index