Association and Enlightenment

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).

• ForewordList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: The Theory and Practice of Associational LifeChapter 1: Politeness, Sociability, and the "Little Platoon": Associational Theoryin the Scottish EnlightenmentDavid AllanChapter 2: Buildings, Associations, and Culture in the Scottish Provincial Town, c.1700‒1830                Bob Harris                                                                                                              Part II: Professional Men and Their SocietiesChapter 3: Medical Societies and the Scottish Enlightenment                                                                Jacqueline Jenkinson       Chapter 4: Professors, Merchants and Ministers in the Clubs of Eighteenth-Century GlasgowRalph McLean           Part III: Clubs, Societies, and Literary Culture                                                     Chapter 5: "Soaping" and "Shaving" the Public Sphere: James Boswell's "Soaping Club" and Edinburgh Enlightenment SociabilityJames 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 EdinburghRosalind Carr                                                                                                                    Chapter 10: Women's Associations in Scotland, 1790‒1830                                           Jane Rendall                                                                                                                     AcknowledgmentsBibliography              Notes on Contributors                                                                                                               Index

"[A] useful new perspective on the era of the Scottish Enlightenment that offers readers much stimulating material and many insightful interpretations."— David Spadafora, author of The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain"The editors have brought together a volume that explores all that we have discovered about the place of clubs and societies in Scotland during the long eighteenth century, answering many of the questions posed so long ago in Davis D. McElroy's pioneering study of 1969. Bucknell has published what will be a lasting and essential work."— Stephen Brown, co-editor of Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800"Handsomely produced." — Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society newsletter