Association and Enlightenment

Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830

Mark C. Wallace, Jane Rendall (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

284 Seiten

2020
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-266-5 (ISBN)

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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.

MARK WALLACE is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. JANE RENDALL is an honorary fellow of the History Department and the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York (UK).

Foreword

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: The Theory and Practice of Associational Life

Chapter 1: Politeness, Sociability, and the “Little Platoon”: Associational Theory

in the Scottish Enlightenment

David Allan

Chapter 2: Buildings, Associations, and Culture in the Scottish Provincial Town, c.1700—1830

Bob Harris

Part II: Professional Men and Their Societies

Chapter 3: Medical Societies and the Scottish Enlightenment

Jacqueline Jenkinson

Chapter 4: Professors, Merchants and Ministers in the Clubs of Eighteenth-Century Glasgow

Ralph McLean

Part III: Clubs, Societies, and Literary Culture

Chapter 5: “Soaping” and “Shaving” the Public Sphere: James Boswell’s “Soaping Club” and Edinburgh Enlightenment Sociability

James J. Caudle

Chapter 6: The “Bohemian Club”: A Study of Edinburgh’s Cape Club

Rhona Brown

Chapter 7: “Caledonia’s Bard, Brother Burns”: Robert Burns and Scottish Freemasonry

Corey E. Andrews

Chapter 8: Inventing the Public Sphere: Fictional Club Life in Ireland and Scotland

Martyn J. Powell

Part IV: Gender and Associational Culture

Chapter 9: Achieving Manhood in Associational Culture: Student Societies and Masculinity

in Enlightenment Edinburgh

Rosalind Carr

Chapter 10: Women’s Associations in Scotland, 1790—1830

Jane Rendall

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2021
Co-Autor	David Allan, Bob Harris
Vorwort	Christopher A. Whatley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-68448-266-6 / 1684482666
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-266-5 / 9781684482665
Zustand	Neuware