Romantic Sociability

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. Clara Tuite is Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Austen (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and an associate editor of The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776–1832 ed. Iain McCalman (1999).

• 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; Bibliography; Index.

'[a] rich collection of essays …'. British Association of Romantic Studies Bulletin