British Sociability in the European Enlightenment: Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Bibliography
Part I: Conceptualizing Sociability: Travel and Tourism
	Chapter 2: The Cham on the Seine: Dr Johnson in Paris (and Mrs Thrale)
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: Enlightened Fratriotism: Boswell in Corsica, Paoli in London
		Extending the Salon: Boswell’s Journey to Corsica
		Concentrating the Salon: Paoli in London
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Communing with the Fictional Dead: Grave Tourism and the Sentimental Novel
		The Tomb of the Lovers
		The Death of Maria, and Her Graves
		The Cult of Charlotte
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Medicinal Sociability: British Bluestockings and the Continental Spa
		Between Correspondence and Conversation
		Sociable Tourism: Company and Companionship
		Sociable and Unsociable Activities
		Culture Contact and Conflict
		Bibliography
Part II: Practicing Sociability: Conflict, Commerce, and Cultural Transfer
	Chapter 6: Philip Thicknesse’s Sociable Encounters in France: The Politics of Eccentricity
		A Brief Presentation of a Querulous Man: Sociability, Conflict and Eccentricity
		Thicknesse’s Controversial Perception of French Sociability: The War with Britain Continued
		From ‘Practical’ Sociability to Nationalism: A Process of Reconciliation and Integration of Eccentricity
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: Elizabeth Craven, Private Theatricals and Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers
		Private Theatres and Theatricals
		Authorship: “[…] but I confess I have added”
		The Theatre: “The Muse Thalia Holds Imperial Sway”
		The Margravine’s Robbers: Free from “Jacobinical Speeches”
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: “The English can’t waltz, never can, never will”: The Politics of Waltzing in Romantic Britain
		William Hogarth’s “line of grace”: Shaping the English Body, Normalizing the Social Body
		The Aesthetic and Popular Reception of the Dis-graceful Waltz
		Pathologizing the Waltz
		“Waltzing was made for souls of noble daring”: Charlotte Dacre’s heroic waltz
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: Sociable Encounters in Model Commercial Letters
		Available Sources
		European Networks and Possible Contacts
		Business and Sociability
		Bibliography
Part III: Fictionalizing Sociability: Conversation, Friendship and Philosophy
	Chapter 10: ‘Musick in their Company’: (Per)Forming Friendship and Early Enlightenment Sociability in Frances Brooke’s The History of Lady Julia Mandeville
		Friendship Virtues and Enlightened Sociability
		‘Virtues of the Same Kind’: Equality and Kindness in the Friendships of Lady Anne Wilmot
		Staging Sociability: A Narrative Performance of Friendship Values
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: Robinson Crusoe: Speech, Conversation, Sociability
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: Reshaping the Leviathan: A Commonwealth Built around Sociable Encounters in Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks
		Unsociable Encounters: Humanist Classicism, Sensus Communis, and the Leviathan of Dogmatism
		Practical Sociability: The Private Regimen as the Art of Life
		How to Avoid Unsociability: Satire and the Real Thrust of Shaftesbury’s Sociable Encounters
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: Hume and de Maistre: Sociable Fundamentalism
		Hume’s Dialogues
		De Maistre’s Les Soirées
		A Solvent of Fanaticism
		Bibliography
Index