Association and Enlightenment : : Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830 / / ed. by Jane Rendall, Mark C. Wallace.
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 vo...
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Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
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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