ISBN:
9781108180733
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (284 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Gilmartin, Kevin Sociable Places : Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain
DDC:
306.094109034
Keywords:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Abstract:
This collection explores how location shaped sociability in the Romantic period
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Locating Romantic-Period Sociability -- Notes -- Part I Print Relations -- Chapter 1 Recovering the Country Book Club -- Under the Radar -- Proximities -- Notes -- Chapter 2 ''Bread and cheese and porter only being allowed'': Radical Spaces in London, 1792-1795 -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Piccadilly Booksellers and Conservative Sociability -- John Wright's ''Celebrated Ministerial Shop'' -- The Anti-Jacobin -- or, Weekly Examiner -- The ''Battle of The Bards'' -- Hatchard: The Godly Bookseller -- Notes -- Part II Sociable Spectacle -- Chapter 4 Proxy Israelites: Staging Ethnic Violence in the Ring and the Pit -- Tell it Not in Gath - Repeat it Not in The Streets of Askelon -- Covent Garden Synagogue -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Fashionable Subjects: Exhibition Culture and the Limits of Sociability -- Notes -- Part III Interior Places -- Chapter 6 ''The place is not free to you'': The Georgian Assembly Room and the Ends of Sociability -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Unconventional Calling: Godwin, Women and Visiting in the 1790s -- Notes -- Part IV Traveling Sociability -- Chapter 8 Sociability among the Ruins: The Colosseum by Moonlight, circa 1820 -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Sociability by the Sea Side: Margate before 1815 -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Lower Deck Narratives and Sociability in the British Navy, 1750-1815 -- Induction into The Royal Navy -- Space and Sociability on the Lower Deck -- Mutiny -- Old Jack Back on Shore -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Secondary Sources -- Index
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