Sociable Places

Kevin Gilmartin is Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology, and has been a regular visiting professor in English at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York. He works on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, with a particular interest in the politics of print culture and the history of print media. His most recent book is William Hazlitt: Political Essayist (2015).

• 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.