Association and Enlightenment : : Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830 /

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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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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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

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