'Hansen and Domsch's collection of essays on the philosophy and practice of sociability in the eighteenth-century forges an innovative and rewarding new direction for sociability studies in British and European contexts. In a series of closely-examined and detailed case studies, it explores how individuals, both fictional and in real life, negotiated cross-cultural encounter through sociable and conversational practices, in locations for sociability like the coffee-house, assembly-room, and theatre, but also in less familiar venues like the waltz, the spa-town, and the letter.' - Markman Ellis, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Queen Mary University of London, UK. This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or concepts such as friendship or politeness. It argues that, taken together, travel accounts, commercial advice, letters, novels and philosophical works of the long eighteenth century, reveal the growing impact of British sociability on the sociable practices on the continent, and correspondingly, the convivial turn of the Enlightenment. In particular, the essays collected here discuss the ways and means - in conversations, through travel guides or literary works - by which readers and writers grappled with their cultural differences in the field of sociability. The first part deals with travellers, the second section with the spreading of various cultural practices, and the third with fictional encounters in philosophical dialogues and novels

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Domsch, Sebastian; Hansen, Mascha

Sebastian Domsch; Mascha Hansen

Author

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

1st ed. 2021, Cham, 2021

Switzerland, Switzerland

Basingstoke, 2020

Basingstoke, 2021

Nov 07, 2020

2, 20210119

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Source title: British Sociability in the European Enlightenment: Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Bibliography
Part I: Conceptualizing Sociability: Travel and Tourism
Chapter 2: The Cham on the Seine: Dr Johnson in Paris (and Mrs Thrale)
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Enlightened Fratriotism: Boswell in Corsica, Paoli in London
Extending the Salon: Boswell’s Journey to Corsica
Concentrating the Salon: Paoli in London
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Communing with the Fictional Dead: Grave Tourism and the Sentimental Novel
The Tomb of the Lovers
The Death of Maria, and Her Graves
The Cult of Charlotte
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Medicinal Sociability: British Bluestockings and the Continental Spa
Between Correspondence and Conversation
Sociable Tourism: Company and Companionship
Sociable and Unsociable Activities
Culture Contact and Conflict
Bibliography
Part II: Practicing Sociability: Conflict, Commerce, and Cultural Transfer
Chapter 6: Philip Thicknesse’s Sociable Encounters in France: The Politics of Eccentricity
A Brief Presentation of a Querulous Man: Sociability, Conflict and Eccentricity
Thicknesse’s Controversial Perception of French Sociability: The War with Britain Continued
From ‘Practical’ Sociability to Nationalism: A Process of Reconciliation and Integration of Eccentricity
Bibliography
Chapter 7: Elizabeth Craven, Private Theatricals and Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers
Private Theatres and Theatricals
Authorship: “[...] but I confess I have added”
The Theatre: “The Muse Thalia Holds Imperial Sway”
The Margravine’s Robbers: Free from “Jacobinical Speeches”
Bibliography
Chapter 8: “The English can’t waltz, never can, never will”: The Politics of Waltzing in Romantic Britain
William Hogarth’s “line of grace”: Shaping the English Body, Normalizing the Social Body
The Aesthetic and Popular Reception of the Dis-graceful Waltz
Pathologizing the Waltz
“Waltzing was made for souls of noble daring”: Charlotte Dacre’s heroic waltz
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Sociable Encounters in Model Commercial Letters
Available Sources
European Networks and Possible Contacts
Business and Sociability
Bibliography
Part III: Fictionalizing Sociability: Conversation, Friendship and Philosophy
Chapter 10: ‘Musick in their Company’: (Per)Forming Friendship and Early Enlightenment Sociability in Frances Brooke’s The History of Lady Julia Mandeville
Friendship Virtues and Enlightened Sociability
‘Virtues of the Same Kind’: Equality and Kindness in the Friendships of Lady Anne Wilmot
Staging Sociability: A Narrative Performance of Friendship Values
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 11: Robinson Crusoe: Speech, Conversation, Sociability
Bibliography
Chapter 12: Reshaping the Leviathan: A Commonwealth Built around Sociable Encounters in Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks
Unsociable Encounters: Humanist Classicism, Sensus Communis, and the Leviathan of Dogmatism
Practical Sociability: The Private Regimen as the Art of Life
How to Avoid Unsociability: Satire and the Real Thrust of Shaftesbury’s Sociable Encounters
Bibliography
Chapter 13: Hume and de Maistre: Sociable Fundamentalism
Hume’s Dialogues
De Maistre’s Les Soirées
A Solvent of Fanaticism
Bibliography
Index

This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or concepts such as friendship or politeness. It argues that, taken together, travel accounts, commercial advice, letters, novels and philosophical works of the long eighteenth century, reveal the growing impact of British sociability on the sociable practices on the continent, and correspondingly, the convivial turn of the Enlightenment. In particular, the essays collected here discuss the ways and means - in conversations, through travel guides or literary works - by which readers and writers grappled with their cultural differences in the field of sociability. The first part deals with travellers, the second section with the spreading of various cultural practices, and the third with fictional encounters in philosophical dialogues and novels. -- Provided by publisher

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