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Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770 1840

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Paperback | 20 April 2006

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Challenging the assumptions which underlie an understanding of the 'Romantics' as solitary and anti-sociable, and Romanticism as representing the rejection of Enlightenment sociability, this 2002 volume introduces sociability to the field of Romantic literary and cultural studies. The volume engages with Jurgen Habermas' model of the 'public sphere' which emphasizes the coffee-house and club as models of an older, masculine eighteenth-century sociability, and focuses on the changing nature of sociability in British radical culture of the 1790s and on the gendered nature of sociability. In a range of essays which examine modes of sociability as diverse as circles of sedition, international republicanism, Dissenting culture, Romantic lecturing, theatre, and shopping, the volume transforms our understanding of Romanticism by exploring the social networks of such central Romantic figures as Anna Barbauld, Frances Burney, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Godwin, William Hazlitt, Anne Lister, Robert Merry, Joseph Priestley, John Thelwall and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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

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Acknowledgements
Introducing Romantic sociability
Sociability and the international republican conversation
'Equality and no king': sociability and sedition; the case of
Amiable and radical sociability:
Firebrands, letters and flowers: Mrs. Barbauld and the Priestleys
'Reciprocal expressions of kindness': Robert Merry, the Della Cruscans, and the limits of Romantic sociability
Spouters of was herwomen: the sociability of Romantic lecturing
Hazlitt and the sociability of theatre
'Obliged to make this sort of deposit of our minds': William Godwin and the sociable contract of writing
The Byronic woman: Anne Lister's style, sociability and sexuality
Counter publics: shopping and women's sociability
Bibliography
Index
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Romantic Sociability

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