Sociable Places

Herausgeber: Gilmartin, Kevin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ranging across literature, theater, history and the visual arts, this collection of essays explores the range of places where British Romantic-period sociability transpired. Specialist and non-specialists readers can revisit the rooms, buildings, landscapes and seascapes where people gathered to converse, to eat and drink, to work and to find entertainment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 281
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781107663749
• ISBN-10: 1107663741
• Artikelnr.: 57087253

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Kevin Gilmartin; Part I. Print Relations: 1. Recovering the
country book club Ina Ferris; 2. 'Bread and cheese and porter only being
allowed': radical spaces in London, 1792-5 Jon Mee; 3. Piccadilly
booksellers and conservative sociability David Fallon; Part II. Sociable
Spectacle: 4. Proxy Israelites: staging ethnic violence in the ring and the
pit Daniel O'Quinn; 5. Fashionable subjects: exhibition culture and the
limits of sociability Paul Keen; Part III. Interior Places: 6. 'The place
is not free to you': the Georgian assembly room and the ends of sociability
Gillian Russell; 7. Unconventional calling: Godwin, women and visiting in
the 1790s Mark Philp; Part IV. Traveling Sociability: 8. Sociability among
the ruins: the Colosseum by moonlight, circa 1820 Christopher Rovee; 9.
Sociability by the sea side: Margate before 1815 Harriet Guest; 10. Lower
deck narratives and sociability in the British Navy, 1750-1815 Nicholas
Rogers.