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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)
53,60 inkl. MwSt
Association and Enlightenment focuses on the distinctive and complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. This edited volume offers a new approach to their history, bringing together the polite culture of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment with the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.
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
Reihe/Serie Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
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)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-68448-266-6 / 1684482666
ISBN-13 978-1-68448-266-5 / 9781684482665
Zustand Neuware
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