Gillian Russell is Senior Lecturer in English at the Australian National University. She is author of The Theatres of War: Performance, Politics and Society, 1793-1815 (1995) and an associate editor of The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832 ed. Iain McCalman (1999). Her articles have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Life, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
Acknowledgements
1. Introducing Romantic sociability Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite
2. Sociability and the international republican conversation Margaret C. Jacob
3. 'Equality and no king': sociability and sedition
the case of John Frost James Epstein
4. Amiable and radical sociability: Anna Barbauld's 'free familiar conversation' Anne Janowitz
5. Firebrands, letters and flowers: Mrs. Barbauld and the Priestleys Deirdre Coleman
6. 'Reciprocal expressions of kindness': Robert Merry, the Della Cruscans, and the limits of Romantic sociability Jon Mee
7. Spouters of washerwomen: the sociability of Romantic lecturing Gillian Russell
8. Hazlitt and the sociability of theatre Julie A. Carlson
9. 'Obliged to make this sort of deposit of our minds': William Godwin and the sociable contract of writing Judith Barbour
10. The Byronic woman: Anne Lister's style, sociability and sexuality Clara Tuite
11. Counter publics: shopping and women's sociability Deidre Shauna Lynch
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