British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century

VALÉRIE CAPDEVILLE is Professor of British History and Civilisation at the University of Rennes 2. ALAIN KERHERVÉ is Professor of British Studies at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines Victor Segalan, University of West Brittany (UBO Brest). VALÉRIE CAPDEVILLE is Professor of British History and Civilisation at the University of Rennes 2. MICHÈLE COHEN is emeritus Professor of Humanities, Richmond, American International University in London, UK. BRIAN COWAN is an Associate Professor of History at McGill University. MARKMAN ELLIS is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London. ALAIN KERHERVÉ is Professor of British Studies at the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines Victor Segalan, University of West Brittany (UBO Brest). JANE RENDALL is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Eighteenth Studies and the History Department at the University of York. She has published widely on women's and gender history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on Scotland.

• Foreword - Michèle CohenIntroduction - Valérie Capdeville and Alain Kerhervé'Restoration' England and the History of Sociability - Brian CowanMapping Sociability on Restoration Townscapes - Marie-Madeleine MartinetClub Sociability and the Emergence of New 'Sociable' Practices - Valérie CapdevilleThe Tea-table, Women, and Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain - Markman Ellis'Amateurs' vs. Connoisseurs in French and English Academies of Painting - Elisabeth MartichouMasonic Connections and Rivalries between France and Britain - Pierre-Yves BeaurepaireCompeting Models of Sociability: Smollett's Repossession of an Ailing British Body - Annick CossicA Theory of British Epistolary Sociability? - Alain KerhervéGender and the Practices of Polite Sociability in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh - Jane RendallIn Company and Out: The Public/Private Selves of Johnson and Boswell - Allan IngramFriendship and Unsociable Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Literature - Emrys JonesThe Anti-social Convivialist: Toasting and Resistance to Sociability - Ian NewmanSociability and the Glorious Revolution: A Dubious Connection in Burke's Philosophy - Norbert ColRespectability vs Political Agency: A Dilemma for British Radical Societies - Remy DuthilleConclusion - Valérie Capdeville

This volume is a great tribute to the exciting and vibrant research taking place in the history of eighteenth-century British sociability. . . . Wide-ranging and eclectic in its methodological and thematic approach, it is clear that this volume will appeal to a wide range of scholars, whether approaching this from a historical, literary, philosophical, political, or social perspective.